An Effective Skeletonization Method Based on Adaptive Selection of Contour Points

  • Authors:
  • Paul Morrison;Ju Jia Zou

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Western Sydney;University of Western Sydney

  • Venue:
  • ICITA '05 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA'05) Volume 2 - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Non-pixel-based skeletonization techniques show many advantages over traditional pixel-based methods such as thinning. These advantages include superior efficiency and faster processing time. Using a Constrained Delaunay Triangulation, an algorithm is presented here that improves upon non-pixel-based methods, through an adaptive selection of contour points. The proposed algorithm uses a new measure for skeletonization error, and aims to reduce this error across entire images, while retaining the significant properties that make a non-pixel-based technique so successful. Results show that the proposed method is computationally efficient, robust against noise, and produces a skeleton that is confirmed by a humanýs perception of the image.