Morphological connected contrast mappings based on top-hat criteria: A multiscale contrast approach

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1577-1595

  Terol Villalobos, Iván R ^a  

^a Parque Tecnologico Queretaro   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CONTRAST OPERATORS; MULTISCALE CONTRAST; RECONSTRUCTION FILTER; TOP HAT TRANSFORMATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 4143087048     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1757456     Document Type: Article

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