On a Generalization of Blaschke's Rolling Theorem and the Smoothing of Surfaces

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 301-316

  Walther, Guenther ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blaschke's Rolling Theorem; Generalized convexity; Mathematical morphology; Rolling ball algorithm; Serra's regular model; Smoothing of images

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACES;

ROLLING BALL ALGORITHM;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0346615742     PISSN: 01704214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1476(19990310)22:4<301::AID-MMA42>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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