Hit-or-Miss Transform
Edward R. Dougherty, Roberto Lotufo · SPIE eBooks · 2009
Rather than simply probe the inside or the outside of an image, it can be very fruitful to probe both at the same time in order to study the relation between figure and background. The hit-or-miss transform accomplishes this, and it has been proved useful in the solution of various problems, such as character recognition and thinning. We treat it in the present chapter.