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A stable skeleton is very important to some applications such as vehicle navigation, object represent and pattern recognition. The connection skeleton is just one that not only can be computed stably but also can figure the connectivity structure of contour. A new method named continuous connectivity detection and a new model named approximate regular polygon (ARP) were proposed for connection skeleton extraction. Both the method and the model were tested by the real maps of road network including flyovers, interchanges and other common object contours. Satisfactory results were obtained.
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Chen, M., Liu, Yc. Connection skeleton extraction based on contour connectedness. J. Shanghai Jiaotong Univ. (Sci.) 13, 521–527 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12204-008-0521-x
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