Numerical Solution Schemes for Continuous-Scale Morphology

  • Authors:
  • Rein van den Boomgaard

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SCALE-SPACE '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scale-Space Theories in Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The partial Differential equations describing the propagation of (wave) fronts in space are closely connected with the morphological erosion and dilation. Strangely enough this connection has not been explored in the derivation of numerical schemes to solve the Differential equations. In this paper the morphological facet model is introduced in which an analytical function is locally fitted to the data. This function is then dilated analytically with an infinitesimal small structuring element. These sub-pixel dilationsform the core of the numerical solution schemes presented in this paper. One of the simpler morphological facet models leads to a numerical scheme that is identical with a well known classical upwind finite Difference scheme. Experiments show that the morphological facet model provides stable numerical solution schemes for these partial Differential equations.