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Harry Blum (scientist)

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Blum, Harry (1967), "A transformation for extracting new descriptors of shape", in Wathen-Dunn, Weiant (ed.),
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Blum, Harry; Nagel, Roger N. (January 1978), "Shape description using weighted symmetric axis features",
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Blum, Harry (February 1973), "Biological shape and visual science (part I)",
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in the Netherlands, and from 1960 to 1967 he worked for the
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Models for the Perception of Speech and Visual Form
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National Institutes of Health
medial axis
grassfire transform
shape analysis
topological skeletonization
visual perception
New York City
New York Naval Shipyard
New York City Subway
Cornell University
United States Air Force
Rome Air Development Center
electrical engineering
Syracuse University
NATO
SHAPE Technical Centre
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories
National Institutes of Health
doi
10.1016/0022-5193(73)90175-6
PMID
4689997
doi
10.1016/0031-3203(78)90025-0




Blum & Nagel (1978)

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