Peak-tree: a new approach to image simplification

Sukhamay Kundu

doi:10.1117/12.364103

23 September 1999 Peak-tree: a new approach to image simplification

Sukhamay Kundu

Proceedings Volume 3811, Vision Geometry VIII; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.364103
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

We define a peak of an image I at the grey level g to be a connected region of pixels p_ij with the grey values g(p_ij) greater than or equal to g. The peaks form a tree structure, called the peak-tree (Pi) (I). It generalizes the notion of the grey-level histogram of I and partially captures the spatial distribution of grey values in the image. Thereby, it opens up new methods for simplifying an image as illustrated here. We give an efficient O(NV) algorithm for constructing the peak-tree, where N equals #(pixels in I) and V equals #(distinct grey levels in I).

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Sukhamay Kundu "Peak-tree: a new approach to image simplification", Proc. SPIE 3811, Vision Geometry VIII, (23 September 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.364103

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