Applications of Mathematical Morphology to Range Imagery

Abstract

Although little known, mathematical morphology offers great potential in the areas of image enhancement, feature extraction, and object recognition. This work explores this growing field through a survey of established morphological algorithms and the development of new morphological algorithms for range image analysis. With range imagery, mathematical morphology is used for noise removal, 2-D feature extraction, 3-D feature extraction, and 3-D corner extraction.