Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing

Introduction....Pages 1-2
A Morphological View on Traditional Signal Processing....Pages 3-12
From the Sup-Decomposition to A Sequential Decomposition....Pages 13-22
Decomposition of Separable Concave Structuring Functions....Pages 23-31
Minkowski Sum Volume Minimization for Convex Polyhedra....Pages 33-40
Topological Properties of Hausdorff Discretizations....Pages 41-50
Vectorial Levelings and Flattenings....Pages 51-60
A Lattice Control Model of Fuzzy Dynamical Systems in State-Space....Pages 61-70
A Morphological Interpolation Approach — Geodesic Set Definition in Case of Empty Intersection....Pages 71-80
The Morphological-Affine Object Deformation....Pages 81-90
Affine Invariant Mathematical Morphology Applied to A Generic Shape Recognition Algorithm....Pages 91-98
Folding Induced Self-Dual Filters....Pages 99-108
Flexible Linear Openings and Closings....Pages 109-118
Some Applications of Aperture Filters....Pages 119-128
GA Optimisation of Multidimensional Grey-Scale Soft Morphological Filters with Applications in Archive Film Restoration....Pages 129-138
New Insight on Digital Topology....Pages 139-148
Approximate Connectivity and Mathematical Morphology....Pages 149-158
Multiresolution Connectivity: An Axiomatic Approach....Pages 159-168
Connected Operators Based on Region-Tree Pruning....Pages 169-178
Image Segmentation Based on the Derivative of the Morphological Profile....Pages 179-188
Flooding and Segmentation....Pages 189-198
A Morphological Multi-Scale Gradient for Color Image Segmentation....Pages 199-206
Automatic Watershed Segmentation of Color Images....Pages 207-214
Motion Segmentation Using Seeded Region Growing....Pages 215-222
A Segmentation Pyramid for the Interactive Segmentation of 3-D Images and Video Sequences....Pages 223-232
Partition Lattice Operators for Extraction of Semantic Video Objects....Pages 233-242
Morphological Granulometric Deconstruction....Pages 243-252
Surface Texture Classification from Morphological Transformations....Pages 253-262
Content Dependent Image Sampling Using Mathematical Morphology: Application to Mipmapping....Pages 263-272
Morphological Pyramids and Wavelets Based on the Quincunx Lattice....Pages 273-281
Morphological Scale-Space Operators: An Algebraic Framework....Pages 282-290
An Idempotent Scale-Space Approach for Morphological Segmentation....Pages 291-300
Efficient Dilation, Erosion, Opening and Closing Algorithms....Pages 301-310
Fast Morphological Attribute Operations Using Tarjan’s Union-Find Algorithm....Pages 311-320
A Change Detector Based on Level Sets....Pages 321-330
A General Algorithm for Computing Distance Transforms in Linear Time....Pages 331-340
The Ordered Queue and the Optimality of the Watershed Approaches....Pages 341-350
Discrete 3D Wave Propagation for Computing Morphological Operations from Surface Patches and Unorganized Points....Pages 351-360
Two-Stage Lossy/Lossless Compression of Grayscale Document Images....Pages 361-370
Boosting OCR Classifier by Optimal Edge Noise Filtering....Pages 371-380
Morphological Bank Check Logo Segmentation With Few A Prior Knowledge....Pages 381-388
Morphological Pseudo Convex Hull to Correct Handwriting Baseline skew....Pages 389-396
Morphological Segmentation of Text and Figures in Renaissance Books (XVI Century)....Pages 397-404
Application of Mathematical Morphology and Markov Random Field Theory to the Automatic Extraction of Linear Features in Airborne Images....Pages 405-414
Testing Some Morphological Approaches to Face Localization....Pages 415-424
Quantitative Description of Telecommunication Networks by Simulation....Pages 425-432