HCMC University of Technology and Education

Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Lecture: IMAGE PROCESSING

Chapter 8: Morphological Image Processing
EROSION METHOD

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Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thanh Hai, PhD
HCMC University of Technology and Education
Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Morphological Image Processing

Erosion

(A()B)={c | (B)c  A)

Formula for erosion, in which a is pixel, b is one SE in SE matrix,

c denotes pixel of the output image after erosion

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Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thanh Hai, PhD
HCMC University of Technology and Education
Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Morphological Image Processing

For example of Erosion

E(i)=(A()B)(x,y)=min(A(x+i, y+i)+B(i,j) | (i,j)DB)

- A is the image matrix with gray pixel.
- B is the SE with elements structured to follow gray levels

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Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thanh Hai, PhD
HCMC University of Technology and Education
Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Morphological Image Processing

Erosion: subtract 10 related to element in SE

Choosing central pixel based on

SE

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Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thanh Hai, PhD
HCMC University of Technology and Education
Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Morphological Image Processing

Choosing pixel with the smallest value, we have

- All pixels in the image A are subtracted by 10 chosen as in the

SE B.
- Choose pixel group with values (non-zero) having the
structure corresponding to the SE B.
- Choose the smallest value in that structure to be the
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Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thanh Hai, PhD
HCMC University of Technology and Education
Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Morphological Image Processing

Examples for erosion

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Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thanh Hai, PhD
HCMC University of Technology and Education
Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Morphological Image Processing

Code for erosion

A = imread('text.png');
B = strel('line',11,90);
C = imerode(A,B);
imshow(C);

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Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thanh Hai, PhD
HCMC University of Technology and Education
Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Morphological Image Processing

The End

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