Efficient morphological reconstruction: a downhill filter

Authors:
Kevin Robinson;Paul F. Whelan
Affiliations:
Vision Systems Laboratory, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland;Vision Systems Laboratory, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland
Venue:
Pattern Recognition Letters
Year:
2004

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Abstract

The downhill filter is an elegant and efficient single pass reconstruction algorithm which demonstrates fast and consistent performance. It operates through a controlled process of region growing by ordered aggregation of surface pixels onto an expanding shell.