Morphological operators for color image processing based on Mahalanobis distance measure

Hazem Munawer Al-Otum

doi:10.1117/1.1594727

1 September 2003 Morphological operators for color image processing based on Mahalanobis distance measure

Hazem Munawer Al-Otum

Optical Engineering, Vol. 42, Issue 9, (September 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1594727

Morphological image processing has been widely used to process binary and grayscale images. To extend the concept to color images, an ordering of the data is required. The solution is not unique, because color spaces are not totally ordered and the ordering process is not straightforward. In this work, two algorithms for color morphology are proposed: A Mahalanobis-color-distance-based morphological ordering algorithm, and a corrected componentwise morphological ordering algorithm. Both algorithms implement the Mahalanobis color measure to replace the angle-valued pixels by a scalar, and are based on a combination of reduced and conditional ordering of the underlying data.

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Hazem Munawer Al-Otum "Morphological operators for color image processing based on Mahalanobis distance measure," Optical Engineering 42(9), (1 September 2003). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1594727

Published: 1 September 2003

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