A mathematical morphology approach to image based 3D particle shape analysis

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 282-288

  Lee, J R J ^a   Smith, M L ^a   Smith, L N ^a   Midha, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D particle analysis; 3D shape analysis; Mathematical morphology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); TEXTURES;

3D PARTICLE ANALYSIS; 3D SHAPE ANALYSIS; ANGULARITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 29144525028     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-005-0181-x     Document Type: Article

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