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CONTENTS:
1. ISMM'2000 proceedings: special offer
2. Book: Formal introduction to digital image processing
3. Web page on multiscale skeletons
4. One day tutorial on Morphological Image Processing
5. CFP - 8th European Congress for Stereology and Image Analysis
6. CFP - 5th Int. Conf. on Quality Control by Artificial Vision
7. CFP - International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
8. Forthcoming events
9. Recent literature
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1. ISMM'2000 proceedings: special offer
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From: John Goutsias (goutsias@jhu.edu)
Mathematical Morphology and its
Applications to Image and Signal Processing
John Goutsias, Luc Vincent, and Dan S. Bloomberg (eds)
COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING AND VISION - Volume 18
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston/Dordrecht/London
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-7862-8
June 2000, 445 pp.
Special offer
=============
Readers of the morphology digest are entitled to order these
proceedings at the reduced price of $100,00, including shipping. This
is about 30-40% off the Kluwer price. Offer is only available while
supply lasts (less than 10 books remain, hurry!). See below for
ordering information.
Summary
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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 fifth 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 the most recent
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, morphological algorithms
and applications.
Audience
=========
The subject matter of this volume will be of interest to electrical
engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians whose research work
is focused on the theoretical and practical aspects of nonlinear
signal and image processing.
Ordering information
====================
Please place your order with:
Jeanette Figueroa
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Palo Alto, CA 94306
USA
figueroa@parc.xerox.com
Contents
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Preface
Introduction
Theory
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A Morphological View on Traditional Signal Processing
Renato Keshet (Kresch)
From the Sup-Decomposition to a Sequential Decomposition
Ronaldo F. Hashimoto, Junior Barrera, and Edward R. Dougherty
Decomposition of separable concave structuring functions
R. van den Boomgaard, E.A. Engbers, and A.W.M. Smeulders
Minkowski sum volume minimization for convex polyhedra
Alexander V. Tuzikov and Stanislav A. Sheynin
Topological properties of Hausdorff discretizations
Mohamed Tajine and Christian Ronse
Vectorial levelings and flattenings
Fernand Meyer
A Lattice Control Model of Fuzzy Dynamical Systems in State-Space
Petros Maragos, Giorgos Stamou, and Spyros Tzafestas
Shape Analysis and Interpolation
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A Morphological Interpolation Approach - Geodesic Set
Definition in case of Empty Intersection
I. Granado, N. Sirakov, and F. Muge
The morphological-affine object deformation
Marcin Iwanowski and Jean Serra
Affine invariant mathematical morphology applied to a generic
shape recognition algorithm
J.L. Lisani, L. Moisan, P. Monasse, and J.M. Morel
Filtering
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Folding Induced Self-dual Filters
Andrew J.H. Mehnert and Paul T. Jackway
Flexible Linear Openings and Closings
Michael Buckley and Hugues Talbot
Some Applications of Aperture Filters
R. Hirata Jr., Edward R. Dougherty, and Junior Barrera
GA Optimisation of Multidimensional Grey-Scale Soft
Morphological Filters with Applications in Archive Film
Restoration
Neal R. Harvey and Stephen Marshall
Connectivity and Connected Operators
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New insight on digital topology
G. J. F. Banon
Approximate connectivity and mathematical morphology
Antony T. Popov
Multiresolution Connectivity: An axiomatic approach
Ulisses M. Braga-Neto and John Goutsias
Connected operators based on region-tree pruning
Philippe Salembier and Luis Garrido
Segmentation
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Image Segmentation Based on the Derivative of the Morphological Profile
Martino Pesaresi and Jon Atli Benediktsson
Flooding and segmentation
Fernand Meyer
A Morphological Multi-scale Gradient for Color Image Segmentation
M. C. d'Ornellas and R. Van den Boomgaard
Automatic Watershed Segmentation of Color Images
I. Vanhamel, H. Sahli and I. Pratikakis
Motion segmentation using seeded region growing
Richard Beare and Hugues Talbot
A segmentation pyramid for the interactive segmentation
of 3-D images and video sequences
F. Zanoguera, B. Marcotegui, and F. Meyer
Partition Lattice Operators for Extraction of Semantic Video Objects
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Ming-Ting Sun, and Chuang Gu
Texture Analysis
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Morphological granulometric deconstruction
Pedro Pina
Surface texture classification from morphological transformations
Antoine Aubert, Dominique Jeulin, and Ronaldo Hashimoto
Content dependent image sampling using mathematical
morphology: Application to mipmapping
Etienne Decenciere Ferrandiere, Beatriz Marcotegui, and Fernand Meyer
Multiresolution Techniques and Scale-Spaces
---------------------------------------------
Morphological Pyramids and Wavelets Based on the Quincunx Lattice
Henk J.A.M. Heijmans and John Goutsias
Morphological scale-space operators: an algebraic framework
Rein van den Boomgaard and Henk J.A.M. Heijmans
An Idempotent Scale-space Approach for Morphological
Segmentation
Neucimar J. Leite and Marta D. Teixeira
Algorithms
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Efficient Dilation, Erosion, Opening and Closing Algorithms
Joseph (Yossi) Gil and Ron Kimmel
Fast morphological attribute operations using Tarjan's union-find algorithm
Michael H. F. Wilkinson and Jos B. T. M. Roerdink
A change detector based on level sets
F. Guichard, S. Bouchafa, and D. Aubert
A general algorithm for computing distance transforms in linear time
A. Meijster and J.B.T.M. Roerdink
The Ordered Queue and the Optimality of the Watershed Approaches
Roberto Lotufo and Alexandre Falcao
Discrete 3D Wave Propagation for Computing Morphological
Operations from Surface Patches and Unorganized Points
Frederic F. Leymarie and Benjamin B. Kimia
Applications
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Two-Stage Lossy/Lossless Compression of Grayscale Document Images
Kris Popat and Dan S. Bloomberg
Boosting OCR Classifier by Optimal Edge Noise Filtering
Junior Barrera, Marcel Brun, Routo Terada, and Edward R. Dougherty
Morphological Bank check Logo Segmentation With Few A Priori Knowledge
Andreia de Jesus and Jacques Facon
Morphological Pseudo Convex Hull to Correct Handwriting Baseline Skew
Anderson Rocha, Jacques Facon, and Flavio Bortolozzi
Morphological Segmentation of Text and Figures in Renaissance Books
(XVI Century)
Michele Mengucci and Isabel Granado
Application of Mathematical Morphology and Markov Random Field Theory
to the Automatic Extraction of Linear Features in Airborne Images
A. Katartzis, V. Pizurica and H. Sahli
Testing some Morphological Approaches to Face Localization
B. Raducanu and M. Grana
Quantitative description of telecommunication networks by simulation
F. Tournois, C. Lantuejoul and M. Schmitt
Author Index
Subject Index
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2. Book: Formal introduction to digital image processing
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From: Gerald Banon (banon@dpi.inpe.br)
The following booklet is available:
TITLE: Formal introduction to digital image processing
AUTHOR: Gerald Banon
PAGES: 180
ABSTRACT: The main objective of this book is to give all the basic
details about the algebraic approach of digital image processing and to
cover in a unified way the linear and morphological aspects.
KEY WORDS: gray-scale, pixel, digital image, lut, measure, operator,
image characterization, image moment, pointwize enhancement, filtering,
window operator, spatial invariance, monoid, linear vector space,
poset, lattice, morphism, linear operator, dilation, erosion, closed
subset, characterization, separable operator, isomorphism, convolution
product, Minkowski addition, Minkwoski subraction.
HOW TO GET IT:
ELECTRONICALLY (8 pdf-format files compressed in zip-format, 722.520 bytes)
http://hermes.dpi.inpe.br:1905/rep/dpi.inpe.br/banon/1999/06.21.09.31
http://fenix.sid.inpe.br:1905/rep/dpi.inpe.br/banon/1999/06.21.09.31
PAPER VERSION: contact:
e-mail: marciana@sid.inpe.br (Marciana Leite)
mail: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Coordena��o de Ensino, Documenta��o e Documentos Especiais
Controle e Divulga��o da Produ��o T�cnico-Cient�fica
Av. dos Astronautas, 1758
12227-010 - S�o Jos� dos Campos - SP
Brazil
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3. Web page on multiscale skeletons
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From: Luciano Da Fontoura Costa (luciano@if.sc.usp.br)
We are glad to inform that a homepage has now been set describing what
is possibly the simplest approach to obtaining high quality multiscale
skeletons. The method, based on the concept of exact dilations,
allows the simultaneous determination of the exact Euclidean distance
transform and exact label propagation. The obtained family of
multiscale skeletons present the distinctive feature that a series
reconstructions of the shape can be obtained where small scale
information is removed while preserving the position of larger scale
details in the shape. The applications of this methodology includes
shape analysis, biology, material sciences, line drawing analysis,
visual perception, and many more.
The page, which can be found at
http://cyvision.if.sc.usp.br/msskeletons/
includes a description of the methods, pseudo-codes, animations,
a downloadable interactive demo, and references.
Comments and suggestions are very welcomed.
Best wishes, Luciano
Prof. Luciano da Fontoura Costa
Coordinator - Cybernetic Vision Research Group
DFI-IFSC, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Caixa Postal 369, Sao Carlos, SP
13560-970 - Brazil
FAX: +55 162 73 9879 or +55 162 71 3616
e-mail: luciano@if.sc.usp.br
Group homepage: http://cyvision.if.sc.usp.br/
Personal homepage: http://cyvision.if.sc.usp.br/~luciano
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4. One day tutorial on Morphological Image Processing
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From: Pierre Soille (pierre.soille@jrc.it)
MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING
one day tutorial
by Pierre Soille
Sep. 12, 2000, Kiel, Germany
[Call For Participation]
In conjunction with the AFPAC & DAGM'2000 conferences, a one day
tutorial on morphological image processing will be held in Kiel,
Germany, on September 12 2000. It is possible to register for the
tutorial only.
For more information please check:
http://www.ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~chp/conf/Tutorials/tutorials.html
and
http://ams.egeo.sai.jrc.it/soille
_Dr. Pierre Soille_____________Advanced Methods Sector-EGEO unit___
|
| Email: Pierre.Soille@jrc.it Space Applications Institute
| Fax: int+39-0332 789 536 EC Joint Research Centre
| Ph.: int+39-0332 785 068 T.P. 441 I-21020 Ispra (VA), Italy
| URL: http://ams.egeo.sai.jrc.it/soille URL: http://www.sai.jrc.it
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5. CFP - 8th European Congress for Stereology and Image Analysis
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From: Muriel Bore (ecs2001@lept-ensam.u-bordeaux.fr)
We (Yannick Anguy et Joelle Riss) are organizing a congress about image
analysis and stereology to be held in Bordeaux, FRANCE, September 4-7, 2001.
You will find all the information about the congress on our web site at
http://www.lept-ensam.u-bordeaux.fr/ecs2001
The 8th European Congress for Stereology and Image Analysis being
multidisciplinary, it should be of interest to each one of you and it will
be our pleasure to welcome you at this congress.
If you wish to receive further information about the 8th ECS and IA
(oncoming circulars, etc.) please, send us by email you full address at :
ecs2001@lept-ensam.u-bordeaux.fr .
We do hope that you will be with us for the wine harvest in the Bordeaux
region in Sptember 2001 !
With all our best regards,
The organizers
Yannick Anguy and Joelle Riss
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Scientific Secretariat of the 8th European Congress for Stereology and
Image Analysis
c/o Muriel Bore
LEPT-ENSAM, Esplanade des Arts et Metiers, F 33405 Talence
Phone: +33 5 56845402
Fax: +33 5 56845436
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6. CFP - 5th Int. Conf. on Quality Control by Artificial Vision
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From: Fabrice Meriaudeau (f.Meriaudeau@iutlecreusot.u-bourgogne.fr)
First call For Papers: QCAV'2001 - BOURGOGNE - FRANCE
5th International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision
May 21 - 23, 2001, Le Creusot, France
in cooperation with IEEE Signal Processing Society French Chapter, CNRS
PRC-ISIS
http://www-le2i.u-bourgogne.fr/qcav2001
Following QCAV'98 in Japan and QCAV'99 in Canada, the objective of the
QCAV'2001 conference is to provide a forum for researchers, industry, and
users of vision systems to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in
machine vision and image processing techniques, with an emphasis on
industrial applications for quality control of manufactured products. The
presentations will include contributed papers, poster sessions and
invited speakers for state-of-the-art talks in specialized subjects
related to the conference topics.
Papers describing original work concerning the theoretical and
experimental aspects of image processing are invited. The Program
Committee invites authors to submit original unpublished paper proposal
which present industrial quality control applications. The major topics
include, but are not limited to, the following :=20
Semiconductor industry, printing industry, wood industry, paper
industry, plastic industry, textile industry, farm-produce industry,
metallurgy, radiography, satellite imaging, biomedical field,
pharmaceutical industry, manufacturing industry
Topics
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Defect detection
Part Classification
Photogrammetry
Control by Infrared thermography
Computed imaging
Dedicated image sensors
2D and 3D dimensional control
Aspect control
Real time control
Color imaging
Methods
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Image segmentation
Pattern recognition
Texture analysis
Wavelets transforms
Genetic algorithms
Data fusion
Mathematical morphology
Stochastic modeling
3D representations
Neural networks
Fuzzy logic
P.D.E.
Submission of summaries
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Prospective authors are invited to submit to the secretariat of
QCAV'2001, an electronic version (pdf encouraged) or three copies of an
extended abstract (2000 words + references) in English in single column
and A4 or equivalent format. Names of the authors, affiliations, postal
and electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers will appear on
the first page. The summary must point out the originality of the work
compared to other work done in the same field. The authors are requested
to indicate their preference for "oral" or "poster" presentation=20
format.
Deadlines
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Deadline for submission of summaries: January 25, 2001
Notification of acceptance and manuscript instructions: March 05, 2001
Deadline for final manuscripts: April 9, 2001
Proceedings will be published and made available on the conference dates.
Best papers will be presented for publication in a peer review journal.
Secretariat of QCAV'2001
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QCAV'2001 Secretariat - I.U.T. Le Creusot
12, rue de la fonderie
71200 Le Creusot, FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 3 85 73 10 90 =20
Fax: (+33) 3 85 73 10 97 =20
email: qcav2001@iutlecreusot.u-bourgogne.fr
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7. CFP - International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
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From: Douzi Hassan (douzi.h@usa.net)
First Call for Papers
ICISP'2001
International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
May 3 - 5, 2001
Ibn Zohr University ; Faculty of Sciences
Agadir, Morocco
May 3 - 5 , Agadir - Morocco
PRESENTATION
ICISP'2001 aims to provide researchers and practitioners from academia
and industry with a forum to report on the latest developments in
image and signal processing and their applications. The conference
will also provide a unique opportunity for dialogue and synergy
between scientists and engineers from different backgrounds with the
common interest in image and signal processing. We cordially invite
you to participate in this event by submitting your work in all
aspects of this field from underlying technologies to applications,
and from theory to practice. We look forward to seeing you in Agadir
in May 2001 for what will be a most rewarding and exciting experience!
IMPORTANT DATES
25 November 2000, Paper submission deadline;
25 January 2001, Notification of results;
01 March 2001, Final version of papers due.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
The technical program will consist of invited talks, oral and poster
sessions with topics of general interest in a single track. Best
papers will be published in a special issue of the "AMADEIA Control,
Computer Science and Signal Processing" Journal. We particularly
encourage submissions from students. Papers are solicited addressing
theoretical as well as practical issues related to the conference
themes.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Image processing
Document analysis
OCR and Handwriting Recognition
Signature verification
Image segmentation and restoration
Image compression and coding
Texture analysis
Object recognition
Biomedical image analysis
Quality Control by Artificial Vision
2D and 3D scene analysis
Image processing in multimedia computing
Mathematical morphology
Wavelets
Image and Video watermarking
Image and Video indexing
Signal processing
Spectral Analysis, time-frequency and time-scale representations
Modeling and statistical signal processing
Filtering, Detection and Estimation
Nonstationary, nongaussian and non linear signals and systems
Radar, Antennas
Telecommunications systems
biomedical applications
Architectures and Implementations
Acoustics
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit in English or in French(with an abstract
in English) indicating the topics of papers. Papers can be submitted
electronically to :
icisp@uqtr.uquebec.ca, for image processing;
icisp@serveur1.esta.ca.ma, for signal processing.
Or 4 copies of the papers should be mailed to the following address :
Prof. Driss MAMMASS
Departement de mathematiques
B.P. 28/S Agadir, Morocco
Papers should be no longer than 5000 words
(approximately 8 A4 pages of text without figures at 10-point font).
CONFERENCE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
* Driss MAMMASS (Univ. Ibn Zohr Agadir )
* Driss ABOUTAJDINE (Univ. Mohamed V Rabat )
INVITED SPEAKERS
* Francoise PRETEUX ( Institut National des
Telecommunications - France)
* Jean Louis COATRIEUX ( Univ. Rennes I - France )
* Denis GINGRAS ( Univ. de Sherbrooke - Canada )
* Pierre COMON (Univ. de Nice - France)
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8. Forthcoming events
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See also: http://www.cwi.nl/projects/morphology/calendar.html
3 - 8 September 2000 Barcelona, Spain
15th International Conference on Image Processing (ICPR2000)
http://www.cvc.uab.es/icpr2000
10 - 13 September 2000 Vancouver, Canada
International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2000)
http://icip2000.ece.ubc.ca/
12 September 2000 Kiel, Germany
One day tutorial on Morphological Image Processing
http://www.ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~chp/conf/Tutorials/tutorials.html
11 - 13 September 2000 Lisbon, Portugal
5th Ibero-American Symposium on Pattern Recognition
http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~aprp/siarp2000/
13 - 15 September 2000 Leicester, UK
Imaging and Digital Image Processing: Mathematical Methods (IMA)
http://www.ima.org.uk/mathematics/confimageprocessing.htm
13 - 15 December 2000 Uppsala, Sweden
9th Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2000)
http://www.cb.uu.se/~dgci2000
3 - 5 May 2001 Agadir, Morocco
International Conference on Image and Signal Processing
email: icisp@serveur1.esta.ca.ma
21 - 23 May 2001 Le Creusot, France
5th International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision
http://www-le2i.u-bourgogne.fr/qcav2001
28 - 30 May 2001 Capri, Italy
4th International Workshop on Visual Form (IWVF4)
http://amalfi.dis.unina.it/iwvf4/
4 - 7 September 2001 Bordeaux, France
8th European Congress for Stereology and Image Analysis
http://www.lept-ensam.u-bordeaux.fr/ecs2001
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9. Recent literature
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@article{ActoMukh:00,
author = "S.T. Acton, D.P. Mukherjee",
title = "Area operators for edge detection",
journal = "Pattern Recognition Letters",
year = "2000",
volume = "11",
number = "2",
pages = "771--777"
}
@article{Bloc:00,
author = "I. Bloch",
title = "On links between mathematical morphology and rough sets",
journal = "Pattern Recognition",
year = "2000",
volume = "33",
number = "9",
pages = "1487--1496"
}
@article{KotrTefaPita:00,
author = "C. Kotropoulos, A. Tefas, and I. Pitas",
title = "Frontal Face Authentication Using Morphological Elastic
Graph Matching",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
year = "2000",
volume = "9",
number = "4",
pages = "555--560"
}
@article{MeyeMara:00,
author = "F. Meyer and P. Maragos",
title = "Nonlinear scale-space representation with morphological
levelings",
journal = "Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation",
year = "2000",
volume = "11",
number = "3",
pages = "245--265"
}
@article{NadaHara:00,
author = "D. Nadadur and R. M. Haralick",
title = "Recursive Binary Dilation and Erosion Using Digital
Line Structuring Elements in Arbitrary Orientations",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
year = "2000",
volume = "9",
number = "5",
pages = "749--759"
}
@article{NikoPita:00,
author = "N. Nikopoulos and I. Pitas",
title = "A Fast Implementation of 3-D Binary Morphological
Transformations",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
year = "2000",
volume = "9",
number = "2",
pages = "283--286"
}
@article{PitaCots:00,
author = "I. Pitas and C.I. Cotsaces",
title = "Memory Efficient Propagation-Based Watershed and
Influence Zone Algorithms for Large Images",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
year = "2000",
volume = "9",
number = "7",
pages = "1185--1199"
}
@article{SaleGarr,
author = "P. Salembier and L. Garrido",
title = "Binary Partition Tree as an Efficient Representation for
Image Processing, Segmentation, and Information Retrieval",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
year = "2000",
volume = "9",
number = "4",
pages = "561--576"
}
@article{Scho:00,
author = "D. Schonfeld",
title = "On the Relation of Order-Statistics Filters and Template
Matching: Optimal Morphological Pattern Recognition",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Image Processing",
year = "2000",
volume = "9",
number = "5",
pages = "945--948"
}
@Article{Soil:00,
author = "P. Soille",
title = "Morphological phase unwrapping",
journal = "Optics and Lasers in Engineering",
year = "2000",
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "339--352"
}
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