title: Trajectory-based morphological operators: a model for efficient image processing.
abstract: Mathematical morphology has been an area of intensive research over the last few years. Although many remarkable advances have been achieved throughout these years, there is still a great interest in accelerating morphological operations in order for them to be implemented in real-time systems. In this work, we present a new model for computing mathematical morphology operations, the so-called morphological trajectory model (MTM), in which a morphological filter will be divided into a sequence of basic operations. Then, a trajectory-based morphological operation (such as dilation, and erosion) is defined as the set of points resulting from the ordered application of the instant basic operations. The MTM approach allows working with different structuring elements, such as disks, and from the experiments, it can be extracted that our method is independent of the structuring element size and can be easily applied to industrial systems and high-resolution images.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnología Informática y Computación, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jimeno-Morenilla
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnología Informática y Computación, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: Francisco A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Pujol
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Molina-Carmona
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Tecnología Informática y Computación, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: José L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Romero
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: Mar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pujol
mesh_terms: D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008962:Models, Theoretical