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The paper describes a method for the analysis of the content of a binary image in order to find its structure. The class of images it deals with consists of images showing a groups of objects connected one to another forming a graph-like structure. Proposed method extracts automatically this structure from image bitmap and produces graph adjacency matrix describing it. The method is based on morphological image processing, skeletonization and labelling.
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Iwanowski, M. (2009). Automatic Extraction of Graph-Like Structures from Binary Images. In: Bolc, L., Kulikowski, J.L., Wojciechowski, K. (eds) Computer Vision and Graphics. ICCVG 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5337. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02345-3_45
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