Binary digital image processing: a discrete approach

Binary Digital Image Processing: A Discrete Approach......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Notation......Page 20
Preface......Page 24
1.1 Continuous to discrete images......Page 28
1.2 Neighbourhoods......Page 30
1.3 Discrete sets......Page 33
1.4 Discrete distances......Page 39
1.5 Compatibility with continuous distances......Page 53
2.1 Introduction......Page 62
2.2 Discrete straightness......Page 63
2.3 Discrete convexity......Page 83
2.4 Discrete curvature......Page 95
2.5 Parallelism and orthogonality......Page 101
3.1 Definitions......Page 104
3.2 Optimisation......Page 111
3.3 Analogies with digital image processing......Page 123
4.1 Digitisation......Page 132
4.2 Storage of binary digital images......Page 153
5.1 Definitions and properties......Page 166
5.2 Discrete distance transformations......Page 169
5.3 Euclidean distance transformations......Page 180
5.4 Related results......Page 193
6.1 Connected component labelling......Page 200
6.2 Noise reduction......Page 207
6.3 Shape factors......Page 215
7.1 Skeleton models......Page 226
7.2 Thinning algorithms......Page 232
7.3 Binary line images......Page 238
8.1 Circuit image......Page 250
8.2 Road map image......Page 253
8.3 Fingerprint image......Page 254
8.4 Text image......Page 255
8.5 Drawing image......Page 257
References......Page 260
Index......Page 274