Morphological Systems for Multidimensional Signal Processing

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 690-710

  Maragos, Petros ^a   Schafer, Ronald W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGICAL SAMPLING; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MULTISCALE SMOOTHING; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SET THEORY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0025415163     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.54808     Document Type: Article

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