Image Approximation from Gray Scale ``Medial Axes''
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Vol. PAMI-3 (6), 687-696
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.1981.4767172
Abstract
Several types of gray-weighted ``medial axes'' have been defined. This paper shows that one of them, the min-max medial axis, can be used to reconstruct good approximations to the original image based on a relatively small amount of information.Keywords
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