The path-based distance skeleton: a flexible tool to analyse silhouette shape

The path-based distance skeleton is used to analyse the shape of a digital silhouette, perceived as the superposition of elongated regions. The skeleton is suitably decomposed and the resulting components are used to represent and describe the corresponding regions.

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