Title
Computing homology group generators of images using irregular graph pyramids
Abstract
We introduce a method for computing homology groups and their generators of a 2D image, using a hierarchical structure i.e. irregular graph pyramid. Starting from an image, a hierarchy of the image is built, by two operations that preserve homology of each region. Instead of computing homology generators in the base where the number of entities (cells) is large, we first reduce the number of cells by a graph pyramid. Then homology generators are computed efficiently on the top level of the pyramid, since the number of cells is small, and a top down process is then used to deduce homology generators in any level of the pyramid, including the base level i.e. the initial image. We show that the new method produces valid homology generators and present some experimental results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-72903-7_26
GbRPR
Keywords
Field
DocType
computing homology group generator,valid homology generator,initial image,graph pyramid,irregular graph pyramid,hierarchical structure,base level,homology group,new method,top level,homology generator,top down processing
Graph,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Singular homology,Smith normal form,Dual graph,Pyramid,Hierarchy,Homology (mathematics),Mathematics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4538
0302-9743
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.92
10
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samuel Peltier17710.05
Adrian Ion222221.11
Yll Haxhimusa323320.26
Walter G. Kropatsch4896152.91
Guillaume Damiand536735.56