Obtencion de un esqueleto morfologico sin puntos redundantes

Abstract

Skeleton is a powerful method to describe binary images. Although there are different possibilities to define a skeleton, is very common to use morphological skeleton because it is easy and fast for implementation purposes. However, the set of points representing a morphological skeleton is redundant. This paper describes a method for selecting the mínimum number of points that have to be kept in order to reconstruct the binary image. Sorne results show that more than 50% of points can be saved.