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Morphological grain operators for binary images

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Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 1997)

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Connected morphological operators act on the level of the flat zones of an image, i.e., the connected regions where the grey-level is constant. For binary images, the flat zones are the foreground and background grains (connected components) of the image. A grain operator is a special kind of connected operator that uses only local information about grains: grain operators do not require information about neighbouring grains. This paper discusses connected morphological operators for binary images, with an emphasis on grain operators and grain filters.

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Heijmans, H.J.A.M. (1997). Morphological grain operators for binary images. In: Sommer, G., Daniilidis, K., Pauli, J. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1296. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63460-6_142

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