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The open problem of the generalization of mathematical morphology to vector images is handled in this paper using the paradigm of depth functions. Statistical depth functions provide from the “deepest” point a “center-outward ordering” of a multidimensional data distribution and they can be therefore used to construct morphological operators. The fundamental assumption of this data-driven approach is the existence of “background/foreground” image representation. Examples in real color and hyperspectral images illustrate the results.
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Velasco-Forero, S., Angulo, J. (2011). Mathematical Morphology for Vector Images Using Statistical Depth. 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_31
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