"eric" <eric@enthought.com> writes:
I'm not familiar with these erosion and dialation functions. Are they something that should be in SciPy? We could start an "idl" package that houses functions familiar to this community. Or maybe they should live in another place like "signal" or maybe an image processing package. Thoughts?
Dilation and erosion are image processing functions used to "grow" and "shrink" objects and boundaries. They are part of a group of image operators based on the theory of mathematical morphology. Overall, they are very extremely useful for shape/size analysis on images. Yes, they should certainly be part of any image processing toolbox for Python. Here is a link for a commercial math. morphology toolbox for matlab: http://www.mmorph.com - Joe -- Joseph M. Reinhardt, Ph.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering joe-reinhardt@uiowa.edu University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 Telephone: 319-335-5634 FAX: 319-335-5631