Thinning is an important task in many image processing applications, including remote sensing, photogrammetry, optical character recognition, and medical imaging. In this study, we compare the performance of thinning algorithms on parallel hardware. Grayscale thinning involves a substantial amount of computation per pixel, and may be accelerated in several ways: algorithmic improvements, code o...

In most of the sheet forming processes, production of the parts with minimum thickness variation and low required force is important. In this research, minimization of the sheet thinning and forming force in the hydraulic deep drawing process has been studied. Firstly, the process is simulated using the finite element method (FEM) and simulation model is verified using the experimental results....

The study analyses the annual post-thinning response and thinning bias of a young Scots pine stand as a function of tree size, competition faced by the tree, and competition that is removed around the tree in the thinning treatment. The thinning response of a tree was defi ned as the change of tree growth due to a thinning treatment. The thinning bias was defi ned as the difference between the ...

This paper studies adaptive thinning strategies for approximating a large set of scattered data by piecewise linear functions over triangulated subsets. Our strategies depend on both the locations of the data points in the plane, and the values of the sampled function at these points — adaptive thinning. All our thinning strategies remove data points one by one, so as to minimize an estimate of...

Forest management activities, such as tree thinning, alter forest ecology, including key components of forest ecosystems, including fungal communities. In the present study, we investigate the effects of forest thinning intensity on the populations and structures of fungal soil communities in the Cryptomeria japonica forests of central Taiwan as well as the dynamics of soil fungi communities in...

Assessment of tracheal stenoses, infra-renal aortic aneurysms, and colorectal polyps [7] Quantitative analysis of tubular tree structures [8] 3D Thinning Algorithms [9] Thinning algorithms based on sufficient conditions for topology preservation [10] Short description: The thinning is an iterative layer by layer erosion until only the "skeletons" of the objects are left. We proposed various 3D ...

Recent observations have shown that the periphery of the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is thinning rapidly and that this thinning is greatest around marine-terminating outlet glaciers. Several theories have been proposed which provide a link between climate and ice thinning. We present surface elevation change (dh/dt) data from NASA’s Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA) laser al...

Keywords: Thinning algorithm Robustness against noise Scale space filtering Sketch image preprocessing a b s t r a c t We apply scale space filtering to thinning of binary sketch images by introducing a framework for making thinning algorithms robust against noise. Our framework derives multiple representations of an input image within multiple scales of filtering. Then, the filtering scale tha...

Pao-Shen Huang, Hui-Chen Lin, I-Min Tso, and Chung-Ping Lin (2011) Effects of thinning on spider diversity in an East Asian subtropical plantation forest. Zoological Studies 50(6): 705-717. Studies examining the effects of forest management on biodiversity in Asia are scarce and conducted mostly in temperate areas. In this study, the effects of the management on the biodiversity of a subtropica...

The chemical constituents of coniferous vascular tissues play a role in bear forage selection. In particular, bear foraging preferences are related to the concentrations of simple sugars (nonstructural carbohydrates) and terpenes in the forage. Analyses of vascular tissue samples from trees collected in test plots indicated that both thinning and fertilization caused the sugar concentration of ...