Hybrid human-machine binary morphological operator design. An independent constraint approach

Signal Processing

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1469-1487

  Barrera, Junior ^a   Dougherty, Edward R ^b   Brun, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BINARY MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; HYBRID HUMAN MACHINE OPERATOR; INDEPENDENT CONSTRAINT;

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EID: 0034249203     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1684(00)00050-5     Document Type: Article

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