Iterative area filtering of multichannel images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1352-1364

  Brunner, Dominik ^a   Soille, Pierre ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Area filter; Connected operator; Image simplification; Mathematical morphology; Multispectral; Partition; Quasi flat zone; Seeded region growing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MORPHOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VECTORS;

AREA FILTER; CONNECTED OPERATOR; IMAGE SIMPLIFICATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MULTICHANNEL IMAGES; NATURAL IMAGES; PSEUDO CODE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248523783     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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