[Up] [maxsubtree] MaxTree Constructor

maxtree
Build a MaxTree

Synopsis

y = maxtree ( image , neigh = "4" )

Input

image

Image Gray-scale (uint8 or uint16) image

Input image.

neigh

String

Connectivity: "4" or "8".

Default: "4" ('4')

Output

y	MaxTree Opaque object representing the MaxTree.

Description

This function creates a MaxTree using the ideas and the algoritm proposed in [SOG98]. The MaxTree is returned as an opaque object. This object is passed to the filtering functions, implemented through the pruning of the tree.

Examples

a = mmreadgray("cameraman.tif")

mt = maxtree(a)

aa = maxgetimage(mt)

bb = maxaopen(mt, 'area', 200)

mmshow(aa)

mmshow(bb)


aa	bb