Title :
How to reduce 3-D gray-scale mathematical morphology to 2-D
Author_Institution :
Nortel Networks Inc., Ottawa, Ont., Canada
fDate :
12/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A planar encoding of three-dimensional (3-D) images, which is commutative with respect to set and gray-scale morphological operations, is proposed. Such an encoding indicates a way to reduce 3-D set and mathematical morphology operations to two-dimensional (2-D) ones
Keywords :
image coding; mathematical morphology; 2D gray-scale mathematical morphology; 3D gray-scale mathematical morphology; 3D-to-2D mapping; commutativity; image coding; planar encoding; three-dimensional images; Encoding; Gray-scale; Image coding; Image reconstruction; Image sampling; Morphological operations; Morphology; Two dimensional displays;
Journal_Title :
Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
