02-05-2013, 03:14 PM
Morphological Operations
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Morphology
A branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of animals and plants
Morphology Operations
To simplify the objects by
Filling in small holes
Eliminating small protrusions from their boundaries
Boundary pixels
Object pixels that have background neighbors
Various definition of neighbor
Erosion
Elimination of boundary pixels from objects in binary images
Making objects smaller, also called shrinking
Dilation
Each background pixel that has a neighbor in the object is relabeled as an object pixel
Making object bigger, also called growing