A multiscanning approach based on morphological filtering |
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Authors: | Chen M-H Yan P-F |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY; |
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Abstract: | It is argued that the mathematical morphology method seems to be more reasonable and powerful in studying certain multiscaling vision problems than the approach that uses derivatives of Gaussian-shaped filters of different sizes. To show the validity of this method, the authors concentrated on an application that involves forming scale-space image of a 2-D shape using morphological opening filtering. A proof is given to show that morphological opening filtering has a property of not introducing additional zero-crossings as one moves to a coarser scale. This is a different result from the conclusion by A.L. Yuille and T.A. Poggio (ibid., vol.PAMI-8, Jan. 1986) that the Gaussian filter is the only filter with this property. In addition, opening filtering is computationaly simpler than the Gaussian filter |
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