Mathematical morphology is well-suited to capturing geometric information.
Hence, morphology-based approaches have been popular for object shape representation. A practical shape representation scheme, though, should give a representation that is computationally efficient to use. Unfortunately, little work has been done for the morphological skeleton and the MSD to address efficiency. We propose a flexible search-based shape decomposition scheme that typically gives more efficient representations than the morphological skeleton or MSD . Our method decomposes an object into a number of simple components based on homothetics of a set of structuring elements.