Locally adaptable mathematical morphology using distance transformations

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 405-416

  Cuisenaire, Olivier ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Distance transformation; Mathematical morphology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

ADAPTABLE DILATION; DISTANCE TRANSFORMATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 29144516452     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2005.07.009     Document Type: Article

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