A robust hit-or-miss transform for template matching applied to very noisy astronomical images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2470-2480

  Perret, B ^a   Lefevre S ^a   Collet, Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Hit or miss transform; Low surface brightness galaxies; Mathematical morphology; Noisy environment; Template matching

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; GENERIC METHOD; GREY-LEVEL IMAGES; HIT-OR-MISS TRANSFORM; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXIES; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; NOISY IMAGE; OPTIMISATIONS; PATTERN MATCHING PROBLEMS; RELIABLE DETECTION; RUNNING COST; SURFACE BRIGHTNESS;

ASTROPHYSICS; GALAXIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MORPHOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 67649390834     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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