Automatic programming of binary morphological machines by design of statistically optimal operators in the context of computational learning theory

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 54-67

  Barrera, Junior ^a   Dougherty, Edward R ^b   Tomita, Nina S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002615940     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.260010     Document Type: Article

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