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Parallel 3D 12-Subiteration Thinning Algorithms Based on Isthmuses

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2013)

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Thinning is an iterative object reduction to obtain skeleton-like shape features of volumetric binary objects. Conventional thinning algorithms preserve endpoints to provide important geometric information relative to the object to be represented. An alternative strategy is also proposed that accumulates isthmuses (i.e., generalization of curve and surface interior points as skeletal elements). This paper presents two parallel isthmus-based 3D thinning algorithms that are capable of producing centerlines and medial surfaces. The strategy which is used is called subiteration-based or directional: each iteration step is composed of 12 subiterations each of which are executed in parallel. The proposed algorithms make efficient implementation possible and their topological correctness is guaranteed.

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  1. Department of Image Processing and Computer Graphics, University of Szeged, Hungary

    Kálmán Palágyi

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Baoxin Li

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

    Victor Zordan

  8. AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA

    James Klosowski

  9. ZIRST, Saint-Ismier Cedex, France

    Sabine Coquillart

  10. Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA, USA

    Xun Luo

  11. Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Min Chen

  12. IBM, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    David Gotz

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Palágyi, K. (2013). Parallel 3D 12-Subiteration Thinning Algorithms Based on Isthmuses. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8033. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41914-0_10

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