@article {aSalembier96, title = {Morphological operators for image and video compression}, journal = {IEEE transactions on image processing}, volume = {5}, number = {6}, year = {1996}, month = {06/1996}, pages = {881{\textendash}898}, abstract = {

This paper deals with the use of some morphological tools for image and video coding. Mathematical morphology can be considered as a shape-oriented approach to signal processing, and some of its features make it very useful for compression. Rather than describing a coding algorithm, the purpose of this paper is to describe some morphological tools that have proved attractive for compression. Four sets of morphological transformations are presented: connected operators, the region-growing version of the watershed, the geodesic skeleton, and a morphological interpolation technique. The authors discuss their implementation, and show how they can be used for image and video segmentation, contour coding, and texture coding.

}, issn = {1057-7149}, doi = {10.1109/83.503906}, author = {Salembier, P. and Brigger, P. and Casas, J. and M. Pard{\`a}s} } @conference {cSalembier96e, title = {Morphological operators for very low bit rate video coding}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 1996}, year = {1996}, pages = {659{\textendash}662}, address = {Lausanne, Switzerland}, isbn = {0-8194-5654-3}, author = {Salembier, P. and Meyer, F. and Brigger, P. and Bouchard, L.} }