An Interval-Valued Fuzzy Morphological Model Based on Lukasiewicz-Operators

  • Authors:
  • M. Nachtegael;P. Sussner;T. Mélange;E. E. Kerre

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium 9000;Dept. of Applied Mathematics, State University of Campinas, Brazil 13083 859;Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium 9000;Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Unit, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium 9000

  • Venue:
  • ACIVS '08 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Mathematical morphology is a well-known theory to process binary, grayscale or color images. In this paper, we introduce interval-valued fuzzy mathematical morphology as an extension of classical and fuzzy morphology. It originates from the observation that the pixel values of a grayscale image are not always certain, and models this uncertainty using interval-valued fuzzy set theory. In this way, we are able to incorporate the uncertainty regarding measured pixel values into the toolbox of morphological operators. We focus our attention on a morphological model whose underlying logical framework is based on the Lukasiewicz-operators. For this model we investigate and discuss general theoretical properties, some computational aspects, as well as its relation to fuzzy morphology and classical grayscale morphology.