Optimal Local Distances for Distance Transforms in 3D Using an Extended Neighbourhood

  • Authors:
  • Gunilla Borgefors;Stina Svensson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IWVF-4 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Visual Form
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Digital distance transforms are useful tools for many image analysis tasks. In the 2D case, the maximum difference from Euclidean distance is considerably smaller when using a 5 × 5 neighbourhood compared to using a 3 × 3 neighbourhood. In the 3D case, weighted distance transforms for neighbourhoods larger than 3 × 3 × 3 has almost not been considered so far. We present optimal local distances for an extended neighbourhood in 3D, where we use the three weights in the 3 × 3 × 3 neighbourhood together with the (2, 1, 1) weight from the 5 × 5 × 5 neighbourhood. A good integer approximation is shown to be 〈3,4,5,7〉.