• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.459-466
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• 2004

In this paper, an effective skeleton method is proposed in order to obtain an enhanced digital image of skeleton line. The binary image using the threshold values is applied in the preprocessing stage and then the modified parallel processing method is applied to obtain the improved image of skeleton line. The existing skeleton methods are Rutovitz, Steiabelli and other five skeleton methods. In the digital process of skeleton line, the major problem caused by these methods is elongated lines and noise branches of the processed image. In this study, however, such noises are deleted first by the modified parallel processing step of the proposed method. Then a pixel is compared to its eight neighbor pixels. if its neighbor pixels are in one of the eight conditions, the central pixel is deleted. As a result, the quality of the skeleton is better then those produced by the existing skeleton methods.