Morphological Processing
Chris J. Solomon, Toby P. Breckon · 2010
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Binary images: foreground, background and connectedness Structuring elements and neighbourhoods Dilation and erosion Dilation, erosion and structuring elements within Matlab Structuring element decomposition and Matlab Effects and uses of erosion and dilation Morphological opening and closing Boundary extraction Extracting connected components Region filling The hit-or-miss transformation Relaxing constraints in hit-or-miss: ‘don't care’ pixels Skeletonization Opening by reconstruction Grey-scale erosion and dilation Grey-scale structuring elements: general case Grey-scale erosion and dilation with flat structuring elements Grey-scale opening and closing The top-hat transformation Summary Exercises