From nobody@cs.Buffalo.EDU Fri May 16 16:54 EDT 1997 Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:53:54 -0400 (EDT) From: uid no body To: techreps@cs.buffalo.edu Subject: techrep: POST request Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1416 Comments: castor ContactPerson: walters@cs.buffalo.edu Remote host: caph.cs.buffalo.edu Remote ident: walters ### Begin Citation ### Do not delete this line ### %R 97-06 %A Walters, Deborah %A Cai, JinYi %A Meyer, Gabriele %T General Ribbons: Minimal Blob/stroke Segmentation %D May 16, 1997 %I Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo %K General Ribbons, Segmentation, Thinning, Stylus-generated Images %X General ribbons are a mathematical model of stylus generated images which is based on the image formation process. One purpose of the model is to provide a formal basis for the development of thinning algorithms for the stroke components of stylus generated images. Before the stroke components can be thinned they must be segmented from the blob components of the image which do not require thinning. A second purpose of the model is to provide a formal basis for the development of blob/stroke segmentation algorithms. This technical report contains the definitions, theorems and proofs on which the minimal blob/stroke segmentation algorithm is based. A discussion of the General Ribbon model and other blob/stroke segmentation algorithms can be found in: Walters, Deborah; Li, Yiming; Milun, Elyse; Atanacio, Bemina. General Ribbons: A Model for Stylus Generated Images, CS-UB Technical Report 97-05, May 15, 1997.