Elliptical distance transforms and applications

  • Authors:
  • Hugues Talbot

  • Affiliations:
  • A2SI-ESIEE / IGM, Noisy-le-Grand, France

  • Venue:
  • DGCI'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Discrete Euclidean distance transforms, both exact and approximate, have been studied for some time, in particular by the Discrete Geometry community. In this paper we extend the notion of Euclidean distance transform (EDT) to elliptical distance transform (LDT) The LDT takes an additional two fixed parameters (eccentricity and orientation) in 2-D and an additional four in 3-D (two ratios and two angles) in 3-D, instead of 1 for the EDT in all cases We study first how the LDT can be computed efficiently with good approximation in the case where all parameters are constant. We provide an application to binary object segmentation as motivation for this work.