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Thinning algorithm without for loops [message #55233]

Mon, 06 August 2007 12:31

nathan12343
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Registered: August 2007

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Hi all-

I'm trying to impliment the Zhang-Suen thinning algorithm in IDL.
This particular algorithm decides whether a pixel needs to be deleted
or not based on properties of the pixels immediately surrounding the
pixel we are concerned with (i.e. a pixel's 8-neighbors). This
naturally lends its self to for loops. Let's say I have an image, a
512X512 array of bytes. The code iteratively scans over each pixel
and determines whether it needs to be set to 0 based on the Zhang-Suen
thinning rules. What I can't figure out is how to scan the images
without for loops. If I use for loops I can easily index the pixels
immediately surrounding image[i,j] by saying image[i-1,j] or image[i
+1,j-1], etc.

Does anyone know of a way to do this kind of indexing in an image
without the use of for loops?

-Nathan Goldbaum

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		Thinning algorithm without for loops By: nathan12343 on Mon, 06 August 2007 12:31
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