Color hit-or-miss transform (CMOMP)

Often, the mathematical morphology is reduced to the ordering construction and the structuring elements are limited to flat shapes. In this paper, we propose a new method based on concept of convergence. Within this proposition, the definition of non-flat structuring element is now possible. By extending the mathematical morphology hit-or-miss transform to the color, we show that these formalisms are well adapted for complex color images, as skin images for dermatological purposes. We give and comment results on synthetic and real images.