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Reflections on a Scientific Career and Its Possible Legacy

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I give the history of my research career, its evolving scientific topics, my main results, and how the computer science and image processing community reacted to them. I briefly describe my current research on generalized flat morphology based on threshold summation. I finally discuss possible future developments arising from my works, to be pursued by a new generation.

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Ronse, C. (2022). Reflections on a Scientific Career and Its Possible Legacy. In: Baudrier, É., Naegel, B., Krähenbühl, A., Tajine, M. (eds) Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology. DGMM 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13493. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19897-7_1

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