Gray-scale structuring element decomposition.

Camps, O I; Kanungo, T; Haralick, R M · IEEE Trans Image Process · 1996

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Efficient implementation of morphological operations requires the decomposition of structuring elements into the dilation of smaller structuring elements. Zhuang and Haralick (1986) presented a search algorithm to find optimal decompositions of structuring elements in binary morphology. We use the concepts of Top of a set and Umbra of a surface to extend this algorithm to find an optimal decomposition of any arbitrary gray-scale structuring element.