A new design tool for feature extraction in noisy images based on grayscale hit-or-miss transforms

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1938-1948

  Murray, Paul ^a   Marshall, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Machine vision; morphological operations; object recognition; segmentation

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE; DILATION OPERATORS; GRAY SCALE; HIT-OR-MISS TRANSFORM; IMAGE FEATURES; MORPHOLOGICAL EROSION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; NEW DESIGN; NOISE ROBUSTNESS; NOISY IMAGE; NOVEL DESIGN; SINGLE PASS;

COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EROSION;

EID: 79959618005     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2103952     Document Type: Article

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