Morphological Segmentation - Watershed

• Published in: Hands-on Morphological Image Processing pp. 1 - 4
• Main Authors: Dougherty Edward R, Lotufo Roberto A
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: SPIE 2003; SPIE Press
• Subjects: Optics & Photonics; Signal and Image Processing & Sensors

The watershed transform is a key building block for morphological segmentation. In particular, a gray-scale segmentation methodology results from applying the watershed to the morphological gradient of an image to be segmented. The watershed methodology has become highly developed to deal with numer...