A competition flow method for computing medial axis transform

Groupwise Medial Axis Transform

Medial Axis Transform (MAT) is one of the promising tools used for the shape recognition and it poses the advantages like space and complexity reduction, ease of processing for shape recognition. MAT representation of shapes uses object centred co-ordinate system that represents bending, elongation and thickness. But MAT of the objects is very much sensitive to small perturbations of its bounda...

Distance Solutions for Medial Axis Transform

A method towards robust and efficient medial axis transform (MAT) of arbitrary domains using distance solutions is presented. The distance field, d, is calculated by solving the hyperbolic-natured Eikonal (or Level Set) equation. The solution is obtained on Cartesian grids. Both the fast-marching method and fast-sweeping method are used to calculate d. Medial axis point clouds are then extracte...

Computing 3D Medial Axis for Chamfer Distances

Computing a compact spline representation of the medial axis transform of a 2D shape

We present a full pipeline for computing the medial axis transform of an arbitrary 2D shape. The instability of the medial axis transform is overcome by a pruning algorithm guided by a user-defined Hausdorff distance threshold. The stable medial axis transform is then approximated by spline curves in 3D to produce a smooth and compact representation. These spline curves are computed by minimizi...

Two-dimensional offsets and medial axis transform

We present a mathematical theory of the two-dimensional offset curves from the viewpoint of medial axis transform. We explore the local geometry of the offset curve in relation with the medial axis transform, culminating in the classification of points on the offset curve. We then study the domain decomposition from the viewpoint of offsets, and in particular introduce the concept of monotonic ...