Geometric algebra colour image representations and derived total orderings for morphological operators - Part I: Colour quaternions

Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-48

  Angulo, Jesús ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Colour feature extraction; Colour image representation; Colour mathematical morphology; Colour potential function; Colour quaternion; Hypercomplex representation; Nonlinear colour filtering; Quaternion complete lattice; Quaternion total ordering

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

COLOUR FEATURES; COLOUR IMAGE; COMPLETE LATTICES; HYPERCOMPLEX REPRESENTATION; POTENTIAL FUNCTION; TOTAL ORDER;

COLOR;

EID: 73249124750     PISSN: 10473203     EISSN: 10959076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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