Optical morphological processor implementations and results are provided using a correlator architecture. The multifunctional MIMD (multiple-instruction multiple-data) advantages of the optical correlator realization used are noted together with the role for optics in the various levels of computer vision. Filter realizations of the morphological structuring elements (SEs) as matched spatial filters (MSFs) are considered. All major morphological processing operations are described and optical laboratory data for many cases are provided to unify much of our prior work on this topic. I .

Date Published: 1 November 1990
PDF: 15 pages
Proc. SPIE 1350, Image Algebra and Morphological Image Processing, (1 November 1990); doi: 10.1117/12.23606

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1350:
Image Algebra and Morphological Image Processing
Paul D. Gader, Editor(s)