New binary morphological operations for effective low-cost boundary detection

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-213

  Amer, Aishy ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Conditional operation; Dilation; Erosion; Image segmentation; Low complexity operations; Morphological operations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER CIRCUITS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; GRADIENT METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; SET THEORY;

BOUNDARY DETECTION; CONDITIONAL DILATION; CONDITIONAL EROSION; CONDITIONAL OPERATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038398994     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001403002307     Document Type: Article

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