July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
174 pages
3h 45m
English
Simply put, a distance transform applied to an image will generate an output image whose pixel values will be the closest distance to a zero-valued pixel in the input image. Basically, they will have the closest distance to the background, given a specified distance measure. The following screenshot gives you an idea of what happens to the silhouette of a human body:

Human silhouette by J E Theriot
This transform can be very useful in the process of getting the topological skeleton of a given segmented image as well as to produce blurring effects. Another interesting application of this transform is in the segmentation of overlapping ...
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