Following the success of the first edition (Soille, 1999), recent developments in the field of morphological image analysis called for an extended second edition (Soille, 2003), reprinted with corrections in 2004. The text has been fully revised with the goal of improving its clarity while introducing new concepts of interest to real image analysis applications.
The book has grown by 25 percent leading to a total of 391 pages (including 39 additional figures, 3 new tables, 93 extra bibliographical references, as well as 1 supplementary index). This increase has been distributed more or less evenly across all chapters. More precisely, beyond a new chapter devoted to texture analysis, main additions include: processing of multichannel images, ordering relations on image partitions, connected operators and levellings, homotopy for grey tone images, translation-invariant implementations of erosions and dilations by line segments, reinforced emphasis on rank-based morphological operators, grey tone hit-or-miss, order independent homotopic thinnings and anchored skeletons, self-dual geodesic transformation and reconstruction, area based self-dual filters, anti-centre, and new scientific and industrial applications.
This self-contained book will be of value to engineers, scientists, and other practitioners interested in the analysis and processing of digital images.
Readers more familiar with the German language may still consider the original German edition (Soille, 1998).