A comparative study on multivariate mathematical morphology

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2914-2929

  Aptoula, E ^a   Lefevre S ^a  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

Author keywords

Colour images; Multispectral images; Multivariate mathematical morphology; Vector ordering; Vectorial processing

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING;

COLOUR IMAGES; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; MULTIVARIATE MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; VECTOR ORDERING; VECTORIAL PROCESSING;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 34250880739     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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