A novel algorithm for distance transformation on irregular isothetic grids

  • Authors:
  • Antoine Vacavant;David Coeurjolly;Laure Tougne

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Lyon, CNRS and Université Lyon 2, LIRIS, UMR, France;Université de Lyon, CNRS and Université Lyon 1, LIRIS, UMR, France;Université de Lyon, CNRS and Université Lyon 2, LIRIS, UMR, France

  • Venue:
  • DGCI'09 Proceedings of the 15th IAPR international conference on Discrete geometry for computer imagery
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this article, we propose a new definition of the E2DT (Squared Euclidean Distance Transformation) on irregular isothetic grids such as quadtree/octree or run-length encoded d-dimensional images. We describe a new separable algorithm to compute this transformation on every grids, which is independent of the background representation. We show that our proposal is able to efficiently handle various kind of classical irregular two-dimensional grids in imagery, and that it can be easily extended to higher dimensions.