Skeletonization and Partitioning of Digital Images Using Discrete Morse Theory

We show how discrete Morse theory provides a rigorous and unifying foundation for defining skeletons and partitions of grayscale digital images. We model a grayscale image as a cubical complex with a real-valued function defined on its vertices (the voxel values). This function is extended to a disc...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. - 1979. - 37(2015), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 654-66
1. Verfasser: Delgado-Friedrichs, Olaf (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Robins, Vanessa, Sheppard, Adrian
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2015
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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