PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Carlo Arcelli

Carlo Arcelli's work linked digital geometry and mathematical morphology with image analysis. He coauthored a width-independent thinning paper with Gabriella Sanniti di Baja in 1985 and a corner-finding paper with Andreas Held and Keiichi Abe in 1990. He received an IAPR Fellowship in 1996 and served on the ACCV'98 program committee. His work also included a 2014 paper on decomposing 3D objects into parts characterized by rectilinear spines.

Works
108
Citations
2,001
h-index
21
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1985

    A width-independent thinning algorithm

    In 1985, he and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja publish “A Width-Independent Fast Thinning Algorithm” in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

  2. 1990

    Corner finding in images

    In 1990, he coauthors “A Coarse to Fine Corner-Finding Method” with Andreas Held and Keiichi Abe; the proceedings list him with Istituto di Cibernetica, C. N. R. (Italy).

  3. 1996

    An IAPR Fellowship

    In 1996, the IAPR names him a Fellow for contributions to digital geometry and mathematical morphology in image analysis.

  4. 1998

    An ACCV program committee

    In 1998, he serves on the ACCV'98 program committee; the roster lists Istituto di Cibernetica, Italy, as his affiliation.

  5. 2014

    Decomposing 3D objects

    In 2014, he coauthors “Decomposing 3D Objects in Simple Parts characterized by Rectilinear spines” with Luca Serino and Gabriella Sanniti di Baja.

Most-cited works

  1. A Width-Independent Fast Thinning Algorithm1985 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 315 citationsWith Gabriella Sanniti di Baja
  2. Parallel thinning of binary pictures1975 · Electronics Letters · 122 citations
  3. Pattern thinning by contour tracing1981 · Computer Graphics and Image Processing · 113 citations
  4. Distance-Driven Skeletonization in Voxel Images2010 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 109 citationsWith Gabriella Sanniti di Baja
  5. Finding local maxima in a pseudo-Euclidian distance transform1988 · Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing · 108 citationsWith Gabriella Sanniti di Baja

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

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  1. Rankless | Carlo Arcelli rankless.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. MVA1990 mva-org.jp. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. IAPR - IAPR Fellows old.iapr.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. ACCV'98 - About the Conference cse.hkust.edu.hk. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Carlo Arcelli csauthors.net. Checked 18 October 2026.