Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing

Preface. Introduction. Theory. A Morphological View on Traditional Signal Processing; R. Keshet. From the Sup-Decomposition to a Sequential Decomposition; R.F. Hashimoto, et al. Decomposition of Separable Concave Structuring Functions; R. Van Den Boomgaard, et al. Minkowski Sum Volume Minimization for Convex Polyhedra; A.V. Tuzikov, S.A. Sheynin. Topological Properties of Hausdorff Discretizations; M. Tajine, C. Ronse. Vectorial Levelings and Flattenings; F. Meyer. A Lattice Control Model of Fuzzy Dynamical Systems in State-Space; P. Maragos, et al. Shape Analysis and Interpolation. A Morphological Interpolation Approach - Geodesic Set Definition in Case of Empty Intersection; I. Granado, et al. The Morphological-Affine Object Deformation; M. Iwanowski, J. Serra. Affine Invariant Mathematical Morphology Applied to a Generic Shape Recognition Algorithm; J.L. Lisani, et al. Filtering. Folding Induced Self-Dual Filters; A.J.H. Mehnert, P.T. Jackway. Flexible Linear Openings and Closings; M. Buckley, H. Talbot. Some Applications of Aperture Filters; R. Hirata Jr., et al. GA Optimisation of Multidimensional Grey-Scale Soft Morphological Filters with Applications in Archive Film Restoration; N.R. Harvey, S. Marshall. Connectivity and Connected Operators. New Insight on Digital Topology; G.J.F. Banon. Approximate Connectivity and Mathematical Morphology; A.T. Popov. Multiresolution Connectivity: An Axiomatic Approach; U.M. Braga-Neto, J. Goutsias. Connected Operators Based on Region-Tree Pruning; P. Salembier, L. Garrido. Segmentation. Image Segmentation Based on the Derivative of the Morphological Profile; M. Pesaresi, J.A. Benediktsson. Flooding and Segmentation; F. Meyer. A Morphological Multi-Scale Gradient for Color Image Segmentation; M.C. D'Ornellas, R. Van Den Boomgaard. Automatic Watershed Segmentation of Color Images; I. Vanhamel, et al. Motion Segmentation using Seeded Region Growing; R. Beare, H. Talbot. A Segmentation Pyramid for the Interactive Segmentation of 3-D Images and Video Sequences; F. Zanoguera, et al. Partition Lattice Operators for Extraction of Semantic Video Objects; D. Gatica-Perez, et al. Texture Analysis. Morphological Granulometric Deconstruction; P. Pina. Surface Texture Classification from Morphological Transformations; A. Aubert, et al. Content Dependent Image Sampling using Mathematical Morphology: Application to Mipmapping; E.D. Ferrandiere, et al. Multiresolution Techniques and Scale-Spaces. Morphological Pyramids and Wavelets Based on the Quincunx Lattice; H.J.A.M. Heijmans, J. Goutsias. Morphological Scale-Space Operators: An Algebraic Framework; R. Van Den Boomgaard, H.J.A.M. Heijmans. An Idempotent Scale-Space Approach for Morphological Segmentation; N.J. Leite, M.D. Teixeira. Algorithms. Efficient Dilation, Erosion, Opening and Closing Algorithms; J. Gil, R. Kimmel. Fast Morphological Attribute Operations Using Tarjan's Union-Find Algorithm; M.H.F. Wilkinson, J.B.T.M. Roerdink. A Change Detector Based on Level Sets; F. Guichard, et al. A General Algorithm for Computing Distance Transforms in Linear Time; A. Meijster, et al. The Ordered Queue and the Optimality of the Watershed Approaches; R. Lotufo, A. Falcao. Discrete 3D Wave Propagation for Computing Morphological Operations from Surface Patches and Unorganized Points; F.F. Leymarie, B.B. Kimia. Applications. T