Morphological color image simplification by saturation-controlled regional levelings

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1207-1223

  Angulo, Jesús ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Color connected filtering; Color image; Leveling; Lexicographical ordering; Lum sat hue; Mathematical morphology; Morphological color segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLOR; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

COLOR CONNECTED FILTERING; COLOR IMAGES; LEVELING; LEXICOGRAPHICAL ORDERING; LUM/SAT/HUE; MORPHOLOGICAL COLOR SEGMENTATION;

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 33845768028     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001406005204     Document Type: Article

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