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Dilation and erosion are two elementary operations from mathematical morphology, a non-linear lattice computing methodology widely used for image processing and analysis. The dilation-erosion perceptron (DEP) is a morphological neural…
This paper presents a hybrid morphological neural network for regression tasks called linear dilation-erosion regressor ($\ell$-DER). An $\ell$-DER is given by a convex combination of the composition of linear and morphological operators.…
In this work, we briefly revise the reduced dilation-erosion perceptron (r-DEP) models for binary classification tasks. Then, we present the so-called linear dilation-erosion perceptron (l-DEP), in which a linear transformation is applied…
A new set of mathematical morphology (MM) operators adaptive to illumination changes caused by variation of exposure time or light intensity is defined thanks to the Logarithmic Image Processing (LIP) model. This model based on the physics…
In this paper we study an emerging class of neural networks based on the morphological operators of dilation and erosion. We explore these networks mathematically from a tropical geometry perspective as well as mathematical morphology. Our…
Mathematical morphology contributes many profitable tools to image processing area. Some of these methods considered to be basic but the most important fundamental of data processing in many various applications. In this paper, we modify…
In the last ten years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have formed the basis of deep-learning architectures for most computer vision tasks. However, they are not necessarily optimal. For example, mathematical morphology is known to be…
Integrating mathematical morphology operations within deep neural networks has been subject to increasing attention lately. However, replacing standard convolution layers with erosions or dilations is particularly challenging because the…
A morphological perceptron is a multilayer feedforward neural network in which neurons perform elementary operations from mathematical morphology. For multiclass classification tasks, a morphological perceptron with a competitive layer…
A classical approach to designing binary image operators is Mathematical Morphology (MM). We propose the Discrete Morphological Neural Networks (DMNN) for binary image analysis to represent W-operators and estimate them via machine…
In this paper we consider the fundamental operations dilation and erosion of mathematical morphology. Many powerful image filtering operations are based on their combinations. We establish homomorphism between max-plus semi-ring of integers…
There have been attempts to insert mathematical morphology (MM) operators into convolutional neural networks (CNN), and the most successful endeavor to date has been the morphological neural networks (MNN). Although MNN have performed…
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are generated by sequentially performing linear and non-linear processes. Using a combination of linear and non-linear procedures is critical for generating a sufficiently deep feature space. The majority of…
The object recognition is a complex problem in the image processing. Mathematical morphology is Shape oriented operations, that simplify image data, preserving their essential shape characteristics and eliminating irrelevancies. This paper…
We present a novel framework for learning morphological operators using counter-harmonic mean. It combines concepts from morphology and convolutional neural networks. A thorough experimental validation analyzes basic morphological operators…
Deep Learning (DL) is a machine learning procedure for artificial intelligence that analyzes the input data in detail by increasing neuron sizes and number of the hidden layers. DL has a popularity with the common improvements on the…
This paper presents innovative algorithms to efficiently compute erosions and dilations of run-length encoded (RLE) binary images with arbitrary shaped structuring elements. An RLE image is given by a set of runs, where a run is a…
Mathematical morphology is a theory and technique to collect features like geometric and topological structures in digital images. Given a target image, determining suitable morphological operations and structuring elements is a cumbersome…
Several tasks in artificial intelligence require to be able to find models about knowledge dynamics. They include belief revision, fusion and belief merging, and abduction. In this paper we exploit the algebraic framework of mathematical…
In this paper the Mechanical Neural Network(MNN) is introduced, a physical implementation of a multilayer perceptron(MLP) with ReLU activation functions, two input neurons, four hidden neurons and two output neurons. This physical model of…