PARALLEL THINNING AND SKELETONS IN ANY DIMENSION

CRITICAL KERNELS

G. Bertrand and M. Couprie

ESIEE Informatics Department, Institut Gaspard-Monge, Université Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallée, FRANCE



Critical kernels contitute a unifying framework to study and design topology-preserving parallel thinning algorithms. In these pages, you will find:



On the right, an object and its minimal K-skeleton. On the left, the K-skeleton constrained by a subset of the medial axis.


K-skeletons constrained by different subsets of the medial axis.


Different curvilinear skeletons. Each skeleton corresponds to a different characterisation of a curve point or a curve extremity.


Left: a thick spiral and its curvilinear K-skeleton (CK³). Right: the Euclidean K-skeleton.

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