Complexity as a Scale-Space for the Medial Axis Transform
Ronald D. Chaney · 1993
13. ABSTRACT (MAXimum 200 Wods) The medial axis skeleton is a thin line graph that preserves the ~ topology of a region. The skeleton has often been cited as a useful representation for shape description, region interpretation, and object recognition. Unfortunately, the computation of the skeleton is 6 extremely sensitive to variations in the bounding contour. In this JUN02 paper, we describe a robust method for computing the medial axis skeleton across a variety of scales. The resulting scale-space is A paramietric with the complexity of the skeleton, where the complexity is defined as the number of branches in the skeleton. 14. SUBJECT TERMS 1S. NUMBER OF PAGES scale space, medial axis skeleton 28