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On Topology Preservation for Triangular Thinning Algorithms

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Combinatorial Image Analaysis (IWCIA 2012)

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Thinning is a frequently used strategy to produce skeleton-like shape features of binary objects. One of the main problems of parallel thinning is to ensure topology preservation. Solutions to this problem have been already given for the case of orthogonal and hexagonal grids. This work introduces some characterizations of simple pixels and some sufficient conditions for parallel thinning algorithms working on triangular grids (or hexagonal lattices) to preserve topology.

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  1. Department of Image Processing and Computer Graphics, University of Szeged, Hungary

    Péter Kardos & Kálmán Palágyi

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, State University of New York at Fredonia, 280 Central Ave, 14063, Fredonia, NY, USA

    Reneta P. Barneva

  2. Mathematics Department, SUNY Buffalo State College, 1300Elmwood Ave, 14222, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Valentin E. Brimkov

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0803, 78712-0240 TX, Austin, USA

    Jake K. Aggarwal

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Kardos, P., Palágyi, K. (2012). On Topology Preservation for Triangular Thinning Algorithms. In: Barneva, R.P., Brimkov, V.E., Aggarwal, J.K. (eds) Combinatorial Image Analaysis. IWCIA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7655. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34732-0_10

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