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The concept of strictness of morphological operators is discussed, and it is shown that the ordinary morphological operators have extreme strictness which leads to sensitivity to noise and digital artifacts. Based on this observation new morphological operators that generalize the ordinary morphological operators, are defined. The generalized operators have controllable strictness and so excessive erosion and dilation may be prevented. Some properties of the generalized morphological operators are discussed, and it is shown that they may have a linear filtering interpretation. The paper concludes with some preliminary examples demonstrating the advantages of the generalized morphological operators.
This work was partially supported by The Paul Ivanier Center for Robotics and Production Automation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.
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Agam, G., Dinstein, I. (1996). Generalized morphological operators applied to map-analysis. In: Perner, P., Wang, P., Rosenfeld, A. (eds) Advances in Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition. SSPR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1121. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61577-6_7
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