Bioinspired parallel 2D or 3D skeletonization

Abstract

Algebraic Topology has been proved to be an useful tool to be used in image processing. In this case we will borrow some elements from Algebraic Topology in order to show a parallel algorithm for thinning a binary 3D image respecting its shape information. The parallelization of the thinning algorithm is based on Membrane Computing. This research area has already been proved to be useful in the development of parallel image processing algorithms. We present here the main guidelines of the algorithms along with a slight introduction about some basic required knowledge about Algebraic Topology and Membrane Computing.