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In this chapter we discuss a medial axis computation technique for a discrete binary object based on the Voronoi diagram of a point sample obtained from its boundary. The method is developed for both 2D and 3D objects. A number of issues must be dealt with including the handling of medial axis topology, adequately sampling the boundary, and the pruning of branches that represent insignificant boundary details. Generally, the methods of this chapter successfully deals with these issues in 2D but face some difficulties in 3D. These issues in 3D are dealt with further in Chapter 7.
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Székely, G. (2008). Voronoi Skeletons. In: Siddiqi, K., Pizer, S.M. (eds) Medial Representations. Computational Imaging and Vision, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8658-8_6
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