Connected Viscous Filters

  • Authors:
  • Ana M. Herrera-Navarro;Israel Santillán;Jorge D. Mendiola-Santibáñez;Iván R. Terol-Villalobos

  • Affiliations:
  • Facultad en Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México 76000;Facultad en Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México 76000 and Universidad Politécnica de Querétaro, Querétaro, México 76240;Universidad Politécnica de Querétaro, Querétaro, México 76240;CIDETEQ, S.C., Parque Tecnológico Querétaro S/N, Querétaro, Mexico 76700

  • Venue:
  • IWCIA '09 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper deals with the notion of connectivity in viscous lattices. In particular, a new family of morphological connected filters, called connected viscous filters is proposed. Connected viscous filters are completely determined by two criteria: size parameter and connectivity. The connection of these filters is defined on viscous lattices in such a way that they verify several properties of the traditionally known filters by reconstruction. Moreover, reconstruction algorithms used to implement filters by reconstruction can also be used to implement these new filters. The interest of these new connected filters is illustrated with different examples.