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Ultimate Opening (UO) is a powerful operator based on numerical residues. In a multi-scale framework, it analyzes an image under a series of increasing openings. Contrasted objects are detected when they are filtered out by an opening, generating an important residue. Gradual transitions make this operator underestimate the contrast of blurred objects. In this paper we propose a solution to this problem, integrating series of non-null residues. The resulting operator handles correctly blurred boundaries, without modifying the behavior on sharp transitions.
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Marcotegui, B., Hernández, J., Retornaz, T. (2011). Ultimate Opening and Gradual Transitions. In: Soille, P., Pesaresi, M., Ouzounis, G.K. (eds) Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing. ISMM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6671. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21569-8_15
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