Parallel and robust skeletonization built on self-organizing elements
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چکیده
A massively parallel neural architecture is suggested for the approximate computation of the skeleton of a planar shape. Numerical examples demonstrate the robustness of the method. The architecture is constructed from self-organizing elements that allow the extension of the concept of skeletonization to areas remote to image processing.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
دوره 12 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999