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This paper describes various ways to construct morphological filters. It discusses (inf-)overfilter, (sup-)underfilters, adjunctional filters, annular filters, various kinds of alternating sequential filters, and it explains how to obtain filters through iteration.
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Heijmans, H.J.A.M. (1996). Morphological Filters for Dummies. In: Maragos, P., Schafer, R.W., Butt, M.A. (eds) Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing. Computational Imaging and Vision, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0469-2_15
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