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Erosion Class

Erosion operator from Mathematical Morphology.
Inheritance Hierarchy
SystemObject
  Accord.Imaging.FiltersBaseUsingCopyPartialFilter
    Accord.Imaging.FiltersErosion

Namespace:  Accord.Imaging.Filters
Assembly:  Accord.Imaging (in Accord.Imaging.dll) Version: 3.8.0
Syntax
public class Erosion : BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter
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The Erosion type exposes the following members.

Constructors
Properties
Methods
  NameDescription
Public methodApply(Bitmap)
Apply filter to an image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApply(BitmapData)
Apply filter to an image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApply(UnmanagedImage)
Apply filter to an image in unmanaged memory.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApply(UnmanagedImage, UnmanagedImage)
Apply filter to an image in unmanaged memory.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(Bitmap)
Apply filter to an image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(BitmapData)
Apply filter to an image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(UnmanagedImage)
Apply filter to an unmanaged image.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(Bitmap, Rectangle)
Apply filter to an image or its part.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(BitmapData, Rectangle)
Apply filter to an image or its part.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodApplyInPlace(UnmanagedImage, Rectangle)
Apply filter to an unmanaged image or its part.
(Inherited from BaseUsingCopyPartialFilter.)
Public methodEquals
Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodFinalize
Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetHashCode
Serves as the default hash function.
(Inherited from Object.)
Public methodGetType
Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodMemberwiseClone
Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
(Inherited from Object.)
Protected methodProcessFilter
Process the filter on the specified image.
(Overrides BaseUsingCopyPartialFilterProcessFilter(UnmanagedImage, UnmanagedImage, Rectangle).)
Public methodToString
Returns a string that represents the current object.
(Inherited from Object.)
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Extension Methods
  NameDescription
Public Extension MethodHasMethod
Checks whether an object implements a method with the given name.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
Public Extension MethodIsEqual
Compares two objects for equality, performing an elementwise comparison if the elements are vectors or matrices.
(Defined by Matrix.)
Public Extension MethodTo(Type)Overloaded.
Converts an object into another type, irrespective of whether the conversion can be done at compile time or not. This can be used to convert generic types to numeric types during runtime.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
Public Extension MethodToTOverloaded.
Converts an object into another type, irrespective of whether the conversion can be done at compile time or not. This can be used to convert generic types to numeric types during runtime.
(Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
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Remarks

The filter assigns minimum value of surrounding pixels to each pixel of the result image. Surrounding pixels, which should be processed, are specified by structuring element: 1 - to process the neighbor, -1 - to skip it.

The filter especially useful for binary image processing, where it removes pixels, which are not surrounded by specified amount of neighbors. It gives ability to remove noisy pixels (stand-alone pixels) or shrink objects.

For processing image with 3x3 structuring element, there are different optimizations available, like Erosion3x3 and BinaryErosion3x3.

The filter accepts 8 and 16 bpp grayscale images and 24 and 48 bpp color images for processing.

Sample usage:

// create filter
Erosion filter = new Erosion( );
// apply the filter
filter.Apply( image );

Initial image:

Result image:

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