Lattice calculus of the morphological slope transform

Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-42

  Heijmans, Henk J A M ^a   Maragos, Petros ^b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjunctions; Convex f; Convex sets; Lipschitz continuous functions; Morphological systems for signal analysis; Supremal and infimal convolution; Upper and lower slope transform; Upper semi continuous (u.s.c.) and lower semi continuous (l.s.c.) functions

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

HAMILTON JACOBI EQUATIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL SLOPE TRANSFORMS;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 0031139854     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(97)00036-4     Document Type: Article

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