A generalized fuzzy mathematical morphology and its application in Robust 2-D and 3-D object representation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1798-1810

  Chatzis, Vassilios ^a,b   Pitas, Ioannis ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fuzzy morphology; Fuzzy sets; Morphological skeletons; Object representation; Shape decomposition

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED FUZZY MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY (GFMM); SHAPE DECOMPOSITION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034298577     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.869190     Document Type: Article

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