Thin nets and crest lines: application to satellite data andmedical images
Monga, O.; Armande, N.; Montesinos, P.
Image Processing, 1995. Proceedings., International Conference on
Volume 2, Issue , 23-26 Oct 1995 Page(s):468 - 471 vol.2
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/ICIP.1995.537517
Summary:We describe a new approach for extracting crest lines and thin nets. The key point of our approach is to model thin nets as the crest lines of the image surface. Crest lines are the lines where one of the two principal curvatures is locally extremal. We define these lines using first, second and third derivatives of the image. We compute the image derivatives using recursive filters approximating the Gaussian filter and its derivatives. Using an adapted scale factor, we apply this approach to the extraction of roads in satellite data and blood vessels in medical images. We also apply this method to the extraction of the crest lines in depth maps of human faces

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