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Morphological and linear scale spaces are well-established instruments in image analysis. They display interesting analogies which make a deeper insight into their mutual relation desirable. A contribution to the understanding of this relation is presented here.
We embed morphological dilation and erosion scale spaces with paraboloid structure functions into families of scale spaces which are found to include linear Gaussian scale space as limit cases. The scale-space families are obtained by deforming the algebraic operations underlying the morphological scale spaces within a family of algebraic operations related to l p norms and generalised means. Alternatively, the deformation of the morphological scale spaces can be described in terms of grey-scale isomorphisms.
We discuss aspects of the newly constructed scale space families such as continuity, invariance, and separability, and the limiting procedure leading to linear scale space. This limiting procedure requires a suitable renormalisation of the scaling parameter. In this sense, our approach turns out to be complementary to that proposed by L. Florack et al. in 1999 which comprises a continuous deformation of linear scale space including morphological scale spaces as limit cases provided an appropriate renormalisation.
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Welk, M. (2003). Families of Generalised Morphological Scale Spaces. In: Griffin, L.D., Lillholm, M. (eds) Scale Space Methods in Computer Vision. Scale-Space 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2695. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44935-3_54
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