Nonlinear scale-space representation with morphological levelings

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 245-265

  Meyer, Fernand ^a,b   Maragos, Petros ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Differential equations; Levelings; Mathematical morphology; Multiscale representation; Scale space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000517629     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvci.1999.0447     Document Type: Article

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