Discrete topology and contour definition

  • Authors:
  • Vladimir A Kovalevsky

  • Affiliations:
  • Zentralinstitut für Kybernetik und Informationsprozesse, Berlin, GDR

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

For all kinds of stationary plane grids only the 6-neighborhood is consistent. It admits the definition of a digital curve, in particular a contour, as a set of pixel pairs. Thus curves become objects of zero thickness and may be coded with one bit per grid step.