Image sharpening by morphological filtering

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 997-1012

  Schavemaker, J G M ^a   Reinders, M J T ^b   Gerbrands, J J ^b   Backer, E ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Document processing; Flat and quadratic structuring functions; Image sharpening; Mathematical morphology; Partial differential equations; Slope transform

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

CONCAVE STRUCTURING FUNCTION; DOCUMENT PROCESSING; FLAT STRUCTURING FUNCTIONS; IMAGE SHARPENING; PARABOLIC STRUCTURING FUNCTION; QUADRATIC STRUCTURING FUNCTIONS; SLOPE TRANSFORM;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033902589     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00160-0     Document Type: Article

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