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A new polygon decomposition into regular and singular regions is defined; it is a concept that is useful for skeleton extraction and part analysis of elongated shapes. Polygon regions that are narrow according to the Voronoi diagram of the polygon are extended through the boundary that is adjacent and quasiparallel. Regular regions are the narrow ones surrounded by smooth quasiparallel contour segments, while singular regions are the polygon regions that are not regular. We present an efficient algorithm to calculate the decomposition and make a comparative study with previous algorithms.
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Received: 21 December 2001, Accepted: 10 January 2003, Published online: 6 June 2003
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Rocha, J. Efficient polygon decomposition into singular and regular regions via Voronoi diagrams. IJDAR 6, 89–101 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-003-0103-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-003-0103-2