• DocumentCode
    1244943
  • Title

    Gray-scale structuring element decomposition

  • Author

    Camps, Octavia I. ; Kanungo, Tapas ; Haralick, Robert M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
  • Volume
    5
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    1/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    111
  • Lastpage
    120
  • Abstract
    Efficient implementation of morphological operations requires the decomposition of structuring elements into the dilation of smaller structuring elements. Zhuang and Haralick (1986) presented a search algorithm to find optimal decompositions of structuring elements in binary morphology. We use the concepts of Top of a set and Umbra of a surface to extend this algorithm to find an optimal decomposition of any arbitrary gray-scale structuring element
  • Keywords
    image segmentation; mathematical morphology; search problems; Top operation; Umbra operation; binary images; binary morphology; dilation; gray-scale structuring element decomposition; image decomposition; morphological operations; optimal decomposition; optimal decompositions; search algorithm; Algebra; Computer science; Filters; Gray-scale; Hardware; Image processing; Image reconstruction; Morphological operations; Shape; Surface morphology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1057-7149
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/83.481675
  • Filename
    481675