Contrast enhancement and image segmentation using a class of morphological nonincreasing filters

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 641-654

  Terol Villalobos, Ivan R ^a   Cruz Mandujano, Juan A ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO EN ELECTROQUÍMICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL FILTERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; MORPHOLOGICAL NONINCREASING FILTERS; TOGGLE MAPPINGS; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032114588     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.482654     Document Type: Article

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