Morphology on Convolution Lattices with Applications to the Slope Transform and Random Set Theory

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-214

  Heijmans, Henk J A M ^a,c,d   Molchanov, Ilya S ^a,b,e,f,g  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^f TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF FOOD TECHNOLOGIES   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Adjunction; Closing; Complete lattice; Convolution lattice; Dilation; Erosion; Evaluation; Image processing; Mathematical morphology; Measurements; Minkowski addition and subtraction; Opening; Random set; Slope transform; Support function; Supremal convolution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SET THEORY;

COMPLETE LATTICES; RANDOM SET THEORY; SLOPE TRANSFORMS; SUPPORT FUNCTIONS; CONVOLUTION LATTICES;

SET THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032069420     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008226416181     Document Type: Article

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