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Published on: September 28, 2018
A mathematical morphology approach to Euclidean distance transformation
1Dept. of Comput. and Inf. Sci., New Jersey Inst. of Technol., Newark, NJ.
Summary
This study introduces a novel distance transformation for digital images using mathematical morphology. This technique efficiently computes distances by decomposing complex operations into smaller, parallelizable steps, enhancing computational speed.
Area of Science:
- Digital Image Processing
- Computer Vision
- Mathematical Morphology
Background:
- Global operations in digital image processing are computationally expensive.
- Mathematical morphology offers decomposition properties to simplify complex operations.
- Efficient distance transformations are crucial for various image analysis tasks.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop an efficient distance transformation technique for binary digital images.
- To leverage gray-scale mathematical morphology for computational cost reduction.
- To approximate Euclidean distance using morphological operations.
Main Methods:
- Developed a distance transformation based on mathematical morphology.
- Utilized decomposition properties of mathematical morphology to reduce computational complexity.
- Employed a set of 3x3 gray-scale morphological erosions with weighted structuring elements.
- Combined erosion outputs using a minimum operator for Euclidean distance approximation.
Main Results:
- Significantly reduced the cost of global distance transformation operations.
- Enabled efficient computation using small neighborhood operations suitable for parallel processing.
- Achieved an approximation of real-valued Euclidean distance transformations.
Conclusions:
- The proposed gray-scale mathematical morphology approach offers an efficient method for distance transformation in digital images.
- Decomposition techniques significantly enhance computational feasibility for parallel architectures.
- The method provides a practical approximation of Euclidean distance for image analysis.
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