Mathematical Morphology for Color Images: An Image-Dependent Approach

作者:Benavent Xaro; Dura Esther; Vegara Francisco; Domingo Juan*
来源:Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2012, 2012: 678326.
DOI:10.1155/2012/678326

摘要

This paper proposes one possibility to generalize the morphological operations (particularly, dilation, erosion, opening, and closing) to color images. First, properties of a desirable generalization are stated and a brief review is done on former approaches. Then, the method is explained, which is based on a total ordering of the colors in an image induced by its color histogram; this is valid for just one image and may present problems in smoothly coloured images. To solve these drawbacks a refinement consisting of smoothing the histogram and using a joint histogram of several images is presented. Results of applying the so-defined morphological operations on several sets of images are shown and discussed.

  • 出版日期2012