Mineral image enhancement based on sequential combination of toggle and top-hat based contrast operator

Micron

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 193-201

  Bai, Xiangzhi ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mathematical morphology; Mineral image enhancement; Toggle contrast operator; Top hat based contrast operator

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE; IMAGE FEATURES; MINERAL ANALYSIS; MULTISCALES; SEQUENTIAL COMBINATION; TOGGLE CONTRAST OPERATOR; TOP-HAT BASED CONTRAST OPERATOR;

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

MINERALS;

EID: 84870713108     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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