Revues internationales
J. Hulin et E. Thiel.
Visible Vectors and Discrete Euclidean Medial Axis.
Discrete and Computational Geometry, 42(4), pp. 759-773, 2009
[pdf]
[résumé].
We denote by Mn(R) the test neighbourhood
sufficient to extract the Euclidean Medial Axis of any
n-dimensional discrete shape whose inner radius is no greater than R.
In this paper, we study properties of discrete Euclidean disks overlappings
so as to prove that in any given dimension n,
Mn(R) tends to the set of visible vectors when R tends to infinity.
D. Coeurjolly, J. Hulin and I. Sivignon.
Finding a Minimum Medial Axis of a Discrete Shape is NP-hard.
Theoretical Computer Science, 406(1-2), pp. 72-79, 2008.
[pdf]
[résumé].
The medial axis is a classical representation of digital objects
widely used in many applications. However, such a set of balls may
not be optimal: subsets of the medial axis may exist without
changing the reversivility of the input shape representation. In
this article, we first prove that finding a minimum medial axis is an
NP-hard problem for the Euclidean distance.
Then, we compare two algorithms which compute an approximation of the
minimum medial axis, one of them providing bounded approximation results.
Conférences internationales
J. Hulin et E. Thiel.
Farey Sequences and the Planar Euclidean Medial Axis Test Mask.
In proceedings of IWCIA'09, 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 82-95, 2009.
[pdf]
[résumé]
[annex with source code].
The Euclidean test mask T(r) is the minimum neighbourhood sufficient
to detect the Euclidean Medial Axis of any discrete shape
whose inner radius does not exceed r.
We establish a link between T(r) and the well-known Farey sequences,
which allows us to propose two new algorithms.
The first one computes T(r),
in time O(r4) and space O(r2).
The second one computes for any vector v the
smallest r for which v∈T(r), in time O(r3) and constant space.
J. Hulin et E. Thiel.
Appearance Radii in Medial Axis Test Mask for Small Planar Chamfer Norms.
In proceedings of DGCI 2009, 15th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 434-445, 2009.
[pdf]
[résumé]
[annex with proofs].
The test mask TM is the minimum neighbourhood sufficient to extract the medial
axis of any discrete shape, for a given chamfer distance mask M.
We propose an arithmetical framework to study TM
in the case of chamfer norms.
We characterize TM for 3×3 and 5×5 chamfer norm masks,
and we give an algorithm to compute
the appearance radius of the vector (2,1) in TM.
J. Hulin et E. Thiel.
Chordal Axis on Weighted Distance Transforms.
In proceedings of DGCI 2006, 13th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 271-282, 2006.
[pdf]
[résumé].
Chordal Axis (CA) is a new representation of planar shapes
introduced by Prasad in 1997, useful for skeleton computation,
shape analysis, characterization and recognition.
The CA is a subset of chord and center of discs tangent to the contour of a
shape, derivated from Medial Axis (MA). Originally presented in a
computational geometry approach, the CA was extracted on a constrained
Delaunay triangulation of a discretely sampled contour of a shape.
Since discrete distance transformations allow to efficiently compute
the center of distance balls and detect discrete MA,
we propose in this paper to redefine the CA in the discrete space, to extract
on distance transforms in the case of
chamfer norms, for which the geometry of balls is well-known,
and to compare with MA.