Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing

Mathematical morphology is a powerful methodology for the processing and analysis of geometric structure in signals and images. This book contains the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image and Signal Processing, held June 26-28, 2000, at Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California. It provides a broad sampling of theoretical and practical developments of mathematical morphology and its applications to image and signal processing. Areas covered include: decomposition of structuring functions and morphological operators, morphological discretization, filtering, connectivity and connected operators, morphological shape analysis and interpolation, texture analysis, morphological segmentation, morphological multiresolution techniques and scale-spaces, and morphological algorithms and applications. The subject matter of this volume should be useful to electrical engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians whose research work is focused on the theoretical and practical aspects of non-linear signal and image processing. It should also be of interest to those working in computer vision, applied mathematics and computer graphics.