Touching grain kernels separation by gap-filling

Image Analysis and Stereology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-203

  Faessel, Matthieu ^a   Courtois, Francis ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Gap filling; Mathematical morphology; Overlapping grains; Segmentation; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950150053     PISSN: 15803139     EISSN: 18545165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5566/ias.v28.p195-203     Document Type: Article

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