Extract an Essential Skeleton of a Character as a Graph from a Character Image using growing neural gas method

Can anyone among you all help me by giving a matlab code to extract an Essential Skeleton of a Character as a Graph from a Character Image using growing neural gas method.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/43665-unsupervised-learning-with-growing-neural-gas--gng--neural-network

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/52866-neural-gas-and-growing-neural-gas-networks

http://yarpiz.com/77/ypml111-neural-gas-network

[Abhishek Ghai]

I already have this but I am not getting how to add images in it to get their skeletonized graph. As in this import data is used for spiral, circle & jain but I want to add my character image in it & want their skeletonized graph. How to do that please tell me?

[Walter Roberson]

It is not obvious to me that there is any beneficial use for this neural gas technique for the purpose of extracting skeletonization of characters. However I do see that there is the paper https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1506/1506.05068.pdf . Looking at that, I see that you should just be binarizing your character image and then passing it to the GNG technique.

Answer 2

[Mohammad Bhat]

I also don't think so. It will work....just time wasting....