THINNING OF GRAY-SCALE IMAGES WITH COMBINED SEQUENTIAL AND PARALLEL CONDITIONS FOR PIXEL REMOVAL

Authors
ABE K MIZUTANI F WANG CH
Citation
K. Abe et al., THINNING OF GRAY-SCALE IMAGES WITH COMBINED SEQUENTIAL AND PARALLEL CONDITIONS FOR PIXEL REMOVAL, IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics, 24(2), 1994, pp. 294-2299
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Controlo Theory & Cybernetics","Computer Science Cybernetics","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00189472
Volume
24
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
294 - 2299
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-9472(1994)24:2<294:TOGIWC>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
A thinning algorithm is proposed for gray-scale images, which applies a combination of sequential and parallel conditions for pixel removal. The authors found that the algorithm developed by Salari and Siy prod uces unsuitable results in certain cases, due to its pure sequential p rocessing. The proposed algorithm in this paper is an improvement of t heirs and, at the same time, is a gray-image equivalent of Hilditch's thinning algorithm. Two versions are available for deriving either 4-c onnected or 8-connected core lines.