Morphological Anisotropic Diffusion

  • Authors:
  • C. Andrew Segall;Scott T. Acton

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICIP '97 Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '97) 3-Volume Set-Volume 3 - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Current formulations of anisotropic diffusion are unable to prevent feature drift and smooth small regions. These deficiencies reduce the effectiveness of the diffusion operation in many image processing tasks, including segmentation, edge detection, compression, and multi-scale processing. This paper introduces a morphological diffusion coefficient capable of smoothing small objects while maintaining edge locality. Results are presented that demonstrate its efficacy in edge detection tasks.