From Binary to Grey Scale Convex Hulls

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Soille

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd.) Image Analysis and Control Group, Silsoe Research Institute, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford, MK45 4HS, U.K. Pierre.Soille@bbsrc.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The convex hull of a set is the smallest convex set containing this set. In ℜ 2, this definition is equivalent to the intersection of all half-planes containing the set. We show that this latter definition is nothing but an algebraic closing that can be applied to 2-D grey scale images. The resulting grey scale image is convex, in the sense that all its cross-sections are convex. An efficient translation-invariant implementation, leading to a decreasing family of convex sets that converges to an exact discrete convex hull, is proposed.