00868nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001100001700042700001900059700002200078700002100100700001900121245007500140300001400215490000600229520047500235       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>