Multiple linear feature detection based on multiple-structuring-element center-surround top-hat transform

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 5201-5211

  Bai, Xiangzhi ^a   Zhou, Fugen ^a   Xue, Bindang ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CLOSING OPERATION; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE; IMAGE FEATURES; LINEAR FEATURE; SIMPLE OPERATION; STRUCTURING ELEMENT; TOP-HAT TRANSFORM;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84864249944     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.005201     Document Type: Article

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