title: Morphological operators for image and video compression.
abstract: This paper deals with the use of some morphological tools for image and video coding. Mathematical morphology can be considered as a shape-oriented approach to signal processing, and some of its features make it very useful for compression. Rather than describing a coding algorithm, the purpose of this paper is to describe some morphological tools that have proved attractive for compression. Four sets of morphological transformations are presented: connected operators, the region-growing version of the watershed, the geodesic skeleton, and a morphological interpolation technique. The authors discuss their implementation, and show how they can be used for image and video segmentation, contour coding, and texture coding.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Signal Theory and Commun., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Salembier
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brigger
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Casas
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pardas