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In article <1bcna6INNrq@sal-sun138.usc.edu> zakauddi@usc.edu (Awais Zakauddin) writes:
>I'm trying to implement shrinking, thinning and skeletonizing algorithms in
>C for my Image Processing course. Our text book, Digital Image Processing by
>Pratt (2nd ed.) discusses these but the method he decribes seems more like
>'brute force ' than anything else. 
>Is there a good paper or text that discusses more subtle approaches to these
>problems ? Thanks.
>
>Awais.
><zakauddi@aludra.usc.edu>
>

You can read Chapter 5 in the following book:
@Book(Haralick92,
   Author="R.M. Haralick and L.G. Shapiro",
   Title="Computer and Robot Vision: Volume 1, 2",
   Publisher="Addison-Wesley Publishing Company",
   Address="Amsterdam, Boon, Don Mills, Madrid, New York,
                 Paris, Singapore, Tokyo",
   Year=1992
   )

There are many references in this chapter.

Jinyou.

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>"Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology" by J.Serra.


Serra, Jean Paul.
Image analysis and mathematical morphology
London; New York: Academic Press 1982
xviii, 610 p, ill, 23 cm
bibliography pp. 590-601.

====> ISBN 0126372403 <====

LCCN 81066397
OCLC 08769195

In article <1bjdoeINN2c7@neuro.usc.edu>, merlin@neuro.usc.edu
 (merlin) writes:

|> Serra, Jean Paul.
|> Image analysis and mathematical morphology
|> London; New York: Academic Press 1982
|> xviii, 610 p, ill, 23 cm
|> bibliography pp. 590-601.

|> ====> ISBN 0126372403 <====

|> LCCN 81066397
|> OCLC 08769195

NB: The above is VOLUME 1 of series which should eventually be
in 3 volumes; but only 2 have been published so far.

I recommend Volume 2 for a more up-to-date view of Math. Morpho.

Serra, Jean, ed.
Image analysis and mathematical morphology
Volume 2: Theoretical Advances
London; New York: Academic Press 1988
411 pp.
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