00881nas a2200169   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100001700043700001900060700002200079700002100101700001900122245007500141300001400216490000600230520047500236       2015                            d1 aHafed Zghidi1 aMaksym Walczak1 aTomasz Blachowicz1 aKrzysztof Domino1 aAndrea Ehrmann00aImage Processing and Analysis of Textile Fibers by Virtual Random Walk  a717–7200 v53 a<p>An algorithm for extracting material shape and spatial information from non-uniform background, and for generating object skeletons for statistical two-dimensional experiments using random walk approach, is presented. This finds applications in textile analysis and microscopic analysis of various materials like hairs and allows for further precise determination of textile yarn dimensions as well as other geometrical characteristics like a fractal dimension.</p>