Homological tree-based strategies for image analysis

Homological characteristics of digital objects can be obtained in a straightforward manner computing an algebraic map φ over a finite cell complex K (with coefficients in the finite field F2={0,1}) which represents the digital object [9]. Computable homological information includes the Euler charact...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Real Jurado, Pedro, Molina Abril, Helena, Kropatsch, Walter G.
Format: book part
Status:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Publication Date:2009
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repository:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/31981
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/31981
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03767-2_40
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Cell complex
chain homotopy
digital volume
homology
gradient vector field
image pyramid
tree
skeleton
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Summary:Homological characteristics of digital objects can be obtained in a straightforward manner computing an algebraic map φ over a finite cell complex K (with coefficients in the finite field F2={0,1}) which represents the digital object [9]. Computable homological information includes the Euler characteristic, homology generators and representative cycles, higher (co)homology operations, etc. This algebraic map φ is described in combinatorial terms using a mixed three-level forest. Different strategies changing only two parameters of this algorithm for computing φ are presented. Each one of those strategies gives rise to different maps, although all of them provides the same homological information for K. For example, tree-based structures useful in image analysis like topological skeletons and pyramids can be obtained as subgraphs of this forest.