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In the context of mathematical morphology based on structuring elements to define erosion and dilation, this paper generalizes the notion of a structuring element to a new setting called structuring neighborhood systems. While a structuring element is often defined as a subset of the space, a structuring neighborhood is a subset of the subsets of the space. This yields an extended definition of erosion; dilation can be obtained as well by a duality principle. With respect to the classical framework, this extension is sound in many ways. It is also strictly more expressive, for any structuring element can be represented as a structuring neighborhood but the converse is not true. A direct application of this framework is to generalize modal morpho-logic to a topological setting.
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While b(x) is often considered as a neighborhood of x according to a given topology on X, here our notion of neighborhood system refers to a set of subsets of X.
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Goy, A., Aiguier, M., Bloch, I. (2019). From Structuring Elements to Structuring Neighborhood Systems. In: Burgeth, B., Kleefeld, A., Naegel, B., Passat, N., Perret, B. (eds) Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing. ISMM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11564. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20867-7_2
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