@InProceedings{PintoFrei:2009:FaMeAx,
               author = "Pinto, Francisco de Moura and Freitas, Carla Maria Dal Sasso",
          affiliation = "UFRGS and UFRGS",
                title = "Fast Medial Axis Transform for Planar Domains With General 
                         Boundaries",
            booktitle = "Proceedings...",
                 year = "2009",
               editor = "Nonato, Luis Gustavo and Scharcanski, Jacob",
         organization = "Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 22. 
                         (SIBGRAPI)",
            publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
              address = "Los Alamitos",
             keywords = "Medial axis curved boundaries.",
             abstract = "The medial axis, also known as symmetry axis, is a special type of 
                         skeleton that has a number of interesting properties. It is a 
                         powerful tool in applications involving pattern recognition, image 
                         analysis, path planning and mesh generation, to name a few. Since 
                         the proposal and definition of the medial axis, in 1967, much 
                         effort has been done to develop fast and accurate methods for 
                         calculating the medial axis transform. Fast and exact solutions 
                         were found for planar domains enclosed by simple polygons, 
                         however, domains with curved boundaries are still a terrain for 
                         further research. This paper presents a new algorithm for 
                         approximating the medial axis of general planar domains that is 
                         much faster than previous approaches. The algorithm is based on a 
                         new but very simple form of representing the medial axis.",
  conference-location = "Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil",
      conference-year = "11-14 Oct. 2009",
                  doi = "10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2009.21",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2009.21",
             language = "en",
                  ibi = "8JMKD3MGPBW4/35S576S",
                  url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/8JMKD3MGPBW4/35S576S",
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        urlaccessdate = "2024, May 04"
}