A Max-Tree Simplification Proposal and Applications for the Interactive Max-Tree Visualization Tool

Abstract

The max-tree is a data structure that represents hierarchically all connected components of an image. It is a powerful structure to perform image processing and analysis tasks. The interactive max-tree visualization tool was the first proposal of an interactive graphical representation for the max-tree, a tool that can be used to navigate, visualize and manipulate the max-tree nodes. In this paper, we propose a more meaningful simplification procedure for the max-tree, we extend the interactive max-tree visualization tool to work with 3D images and we propose the visualization of attributes, a new feature using the interactive max-tree that provides insight for the development of automatic methods.