Developing Morphological Building Blocks: From Design to Implementation

Abstract. Mathematical morphology has become a widely used technique for image processing and computer vision. Initially designed as a set theory, it was generalized to the set of grayscale images and to the complete lattice framework. Despite this accredited theoretical evolution, contemporary practice in morphological algorithm development still lacks of a standardized, mathematically rigorous algebraic structure that is specifically designed for image handling. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it is intended to give rise to a new morphological framework that overcomes the combinatorial explosion of algorithms needed to deal with all possible types of lattices and structuring functions. Second, it provides us with the essential tools in order to design and implement generic building blocks for morphological image operators.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: SIBGRAPI
• Authors: Marcos Cordeiro d'Ornellas, Rein van den Boomgaard
• Keywords: Complete Lattice Framework, Computer Graphics, Image, Morphological Algorithm Development, SIBGRAPI 1999