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Area-Based Medial Axis of Planar Curves

Marc Niethammer1, Santiago Betelu, Guillermo Sapiro

  • 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250, USA.

International Journal of Computer Vision
|May 28, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
affine invariantareamedial axispattern recognitionshapesymmetry

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