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Morse operators for digital planar surfaces and their application to image segmentation

Luis Gustavo Nonato1, Antônio Castelo Filho, Rosane Minghim

  • 1Departamento de Ciências da Computação e Estatística, ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil.

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
|September 21, 2004
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