Morphological scale-space in image processing

Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 338-367

  Bosworth, Joseph H ^a   Acton, Scott T ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology; Non linear filters; Scale space

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; SCALE-SPACE GENERATION TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0346724456     PISSN: 10512004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1051-2004(02)00033-7     Document Type: Article

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