Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Signal and Image Processing : 12th International Symposium, ISMM 2015, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 27-29, 2015. Proceedings

This book contains the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, ISMM 2015 held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in May 2015. The 62 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluations and applications; hierarchies; color, multivalued and orientation fields; optimization, differential calculus and probabilities; topology and discrete geometry; and algorithms and implementation. Front Matter....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Hourglass Shapes in Rank Grey-Level Hit-or-miss Transform for Membrane Segmentation in HER2/neu Images....Pages 3-14 Automated Digital Hair Removal by Threshold Decomposition and Morphological Analysis....Pages 15-26 Portal Extraction Based on an Opening Labeling for Ray Tracing....Pages 27-38 Evaluation of Morphological Hierarchies for Supervised Segmentation....Pages 39-50 Study of Binary Partition Tree Pruning Techniques for Polarimetric SAR Images....Pages 51-62 A Comparison Between Extinction Filters and Attribute Filters....Pages 63-74 Inner-Cheeger Opening and Applications....Pages 75-85 Tracking Sub-atomic Particles Through the Attribute Space....Pages 86-97 A Pansharpening Algorithm Based on Morphological Filters....Pages 98-109 An Automated Assay for the Evaluation of Mortality in Fish Embryo....Pages 110-121 A Top-Down Approach to the Estimation of Depth Maps Driven by Morphological Segmentations....Pages 122-133 A Comparison of Some Morphological Filters for Improving OCR Performance....Pages 134-145 Local Blur Estimation Based on Toggle Mapping....Pages 146-156 Improved Detection of Faint Extended Astronomical Objects Through Statistical Attribute Filtering....Pages 157-168 Automatic Threshold Selection for Profiles of Attribute Filters Based on Granulometric Characteristic Functions....Pages 169-181 Local 2D Pattern Spectra as Connected Region Descriptors....Pages 182-193 Spatial Repulsion Between Markers Improves Watershed Performance....Pages 194-202 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 New Characterizations of Minimum Spanning Trees and of Saliency Maps Based on Quasi-flat Zones....Pages 205-216 Braids of Partitions....Pages 217-228 Constrained Optimization on Hierarchies and Braids of Partitions....Pages 229-240 Front Matter....Pages 203-203 Segmentation of Multimodal Images Based on Hierarchies of Partitions....Pages 241-252 Multi-image Segmentation: A Collaborative Approach Based on Binary Partition Trees....Pages 253-264 Scale-Space Representation Based on Levelings Through Hierarchies of Level Sets....Pages 265-276 Cluster Based Vector Attribute Filtering....Pages 277-288 Intelligent Object Detection Using Trees....Pages 289-300 GraphBPT: An Efficient Hierarchical Data Structure for Image Representation and Probabilistic Inference....Pages 301-312 Probabilistic Hierarchical Morphological Segmentation of Textures....Pages 313-324 The Waterfall Hierarchy on Weighted Graphs....Pages 325-336 Front Matter....Pages 337-337 N-ary Mathematical Morphology....Pages 339-350 Sponges for Generalized Morphology....Pages 351-362 A Color Tree of Shapes with Illustrations on Filtering, Simplification, and Segmentation....Pages 363-374 Elementary Morphological Operations on the Spherical CIELab Quantale....Pages 375-386 Spectral Ordering Assessment Using Spectral Median Filters....Pages 387-397 Non-adaptive and Amoeba Quantile Filters for Colour Images....Pages 398-409 Ordering on the Probability Simplex of Endmembers for Hyperspectral Morphological Image Processing....Pages 410-421 Bagging Stochastic Watershed on Natural Color Image Segmentation....Pages 422-433 Binary Partition Trees-Based Spectral-Spatial Permutation Ordering....Pages 434-445 Shape-Based Analysis on Component-Graphs for Multivalued Image Processing....Pages 446-457 Elementary Morphology for SO(2)- and SO(3)-Orientation Fields....Pages 458-469 Front Matter....Pages 471-471 When Convex Analysis Meets Mathematical Morphology on Graphs....Pages 473-484 Front Matter....Pages 471-471 ( max , min )-convolution and Mathematical Morphology....Pages 485-496 Learning Watershed Cuts Energy Functions....Pages 497-508 Morphological PDE and Dilation/Erosion Semigroups on Length Spaces....Pages 509-521 Hausdorff Distances Between Distributions Using Optimal Transport and Mathematical Morphology....Pages 522-534 The Power Laws of Geodesics in Some Random Sets with Dilute Concentration of Inclusions....Pages 535-546 Front Matter....Pages 547-547 A 3D Sequential Thinning Scheme Based on Critical Kernels....Pages 549-560 How to Make nD Functions Digitally Well-Composed in a Self-dual Way....Pages 561-572 Self-duality and Digital Topology: Links Between the Morphological Tree of Shapes and Well-Composed Gray-Level Images....Pages 573-584 A Combinatorial 4-Coordinate System for the Diamond Grid....Pages 585-596 Wiener Index on Lines of Unit Cells of the Body-Centered Cubic Grid....Pages 597-606 Part-Based Segmentation by Skeleton Cut Space Analysis....Pages 607-618 Front Matter....Pages 619-619 Fast Computation of Greyscale Path Openings....Pages 621-632 Ranking Orientation Responses of Path Operators: Motivations, Choices and Algorithmics....Pages 633-644 Exact Linear Time Euclidean Distance Transforms of Grid Line Sampled Shapes....Pages 645-656 Fast Estimation of Intrinsic Volumes in 3D Gray Value Images....Pages 657-668 Viscous-Hyperconnected Attribute Filters: A First Algorithm....Pages 669-680 Incremental and Efficient Computation of Families of Component Trees....Pages 681-692 Efficient Computation of Attributes and Saliency Maps on Tree-Based Image Representations....Pages 693-704 Fast Evaluation of the Robust Stochastic Watershed....Pages 705-716 A Watershed Algorithm Progressively Unveiling Its Optimality....Pages 717-728 Front Matter....Pages 619-619 An Approach to Adaptive Quadratic Structuring Functions Based on the Local Structure Tensor....Pages 729-740 Adaptive Hit or Miss Transform....Pages 741-752 Back Matter....Pages 753-754