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Minkowski operations and vector spaces

Set-Valued Analysis volume 3, pages 33–50 (1995)Cite this article

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Mathematical morphology started as a set of tools for analysing images by the use of transformations based on set-theoretical operations which are the Minkowski sum and subtraction. It was first developed for the analysis of binary images. Its extension to grey-level images was a later development with the extension of the Minkowski operations to real-valued functions in terms of sup-convolution and inf-convolution. The purpose of this paper is to define a type of convolution between set-valued maps, to study its properties, and to establish some associated differential relations. This set-convolution map allows us to extend the Minkowski sum and substraction to multivalued functions and to functions with vectorial values.

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Mattioli, J. Minkowski operations and vector spaces. Set-Valued Anal 3, 33–50 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01033640

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Mathematics Subject Classifications (1991)

  • 47H04
  • 68U10

Key words

  • mathematical morphology
  • Minkowski sum
  • Minkowski subtraction
  • set-convolution
  • internal set-convolution
  • Steiner selection