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A fast parallel algorithm for thinning digital patterns
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A fast parallel thinning algorithm is proposed in this paper.It consists of two subiterations: one aimed at deleting the south-east boundary points and the north-west corner points while the other one is aimed at deleting the north-west boundary points and the south-east corner points.End points and pixel connectivity are preserved.Each pattern is thinned down to a "skeleton" of unitary thickness.Experimental results show that this method is very effective.
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- Authors
- Zhang, T. Y., & Suen, C. Y.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1984-03
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 236-239
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2039367092
- Cited by
- 2,756
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 7.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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