Morphological filters—Part I: Their set-theoretic analysis and relations to linear shift-invariant filters

IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1987, Pages 1153-1169

  Schafer, Ronald W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - SET THEORY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS; SET THEORETIC ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC FILTERS, DIGITAL;

EID: 0023400884     PISSN: 00963518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASSP.1987.1165259     Document Type: Article

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