Optimal iterative increasing binary morphological filters

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3495-3507

  Dougherty, Edward R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital document; Iterative filter; Morphological filter; Optimal filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000753937     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601086     Document Type: Article

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