\Dimensionality" has recently been shown to be an important property in image measurement and image processing operators. It is often thought that morphological operations on an image with \volumic" (non-at) structuring elements lead to the breakdown of dimensionality. After a brief review of a new morphological scale-space, we show here that any dimensional functional of the scale-space image ...

We introduce an algorithm for active contour segmentation in which the level set function encoding the contour is processed by median filtering using morphological amoebas. These are adaptive structure elements introduced by Lerallut et al. which can be combined with different morphological operations. Recently it has been proven that iterated amoeba median filtering of an image approximates th...

Shape is one of the most important property that is perceived about objects. It allows predicting more facts about an object when compared with other features. Thus recognizing shape is crucial for object recognition. This paper proposes an optimal morphological shape decomposition scheme that represents the object accurately and efficiently. The high level of redundancy in representation is th...

Animacy is an inherent property of entities that nominals refer to in the physical world. This semantic property of a nominal has received much attention in both linguistics and computational linguistics. In this paper, we present a robust unsupervised technique to infer the animacy of nominals in languages with rich morphological case. The intuition behind our method is that the control/agency...

In a previous paper, Elorza and Burillo explored the coherence property in fuzzy consequence operators. In this paper we show that fuzzy closing operators of mathematical morphology are always coherent operators. We also show that the coherence property is the key to link the four following families: fuzzy closing morphological operators, fuzzy consequence operators, fuzzy preorders and fuzzy c...

In order to establish an objective framework for studying galaxy morphology, we have developed a quantitative two-parameter description of galactic structure that maps closely on to Hubble’s original tuning fork. Any galaxy can be placed in this “Hubble space,” where the x-coordinate measures position along the early-to-late sequence, while the y-coordinate measures in a quantitative way the de...

Galaxy harassment has been proposed as a physical process that morphologically transforms low surface density disc galaxies into dwarf elliptical galaxies in clusters. It has been used to link the observed very different morphology of distant cluster galaxies (relatively more blue galaxies with ’disturbed’ morphologies) with the relatively large numbers of dwarf elliptical galaxies found in nea...

Introduction. An important first step in the current Mars exploration strategy [10] is the detection of sites where there is evidence for past or present near-surface water on Mars. This study evaluates the large-scale morphology of spring deposits and the physical processes of their formation, growth, and evolution in terms that relate to (1) their identification in image data, (2) their forma...

Events have been represented as part of the lexicon (Grimshaw 1990; Pustejovsky 1991), as part of argument structure (Davidson 1967; Higginbotham 1985; Kratzer 1994), in aspectual projections (Tenny 1994; Borer 1994; Travis 1991, 1994) and as a property of Feature Checking (van Hout 1996). We argue that the Feature Checking account defined on Event related projections captures morphological var...