imopen

Morphologically open image

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Syntax

J = imopen(I,SE)
J = imopen(I,nhood)

Description

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J = imopen(I,SE) performs morphological opening on the grayscale or binary image I, returning the opened image, J. SE is a single structuring element object returned by the strel or offsetstrel functions. The morphological open operation is an erosion followed by a dilation, using the same structuring element for both operations.

J = imopen(I,nhood) opens the image I, where nhood is a matrix of 0s and 1s that specifies the structuring element neighborhood. The imopen function determines the center element of the neighborhood by floor((size(nhood)+1)/2).

This syntax is equivalent to imopen(I,strel(nhood)).

Examples

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Open Live Script

Read the image into the workspace and display it.

original = imread('snowflakes.png');
imshow(original);

Create a disk-shaped structuring element with a radius of 5 pixels.

se = strel('disk',5);

Remove snowflakes having a radius less than 5 pixels by opening it with the disk-shaped structuring element.

afterOpening = imopen(original,se);
figure
imshow(afterOpening,[]);

Input Arguments

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Input image, specified as a grayscale image or binary image of any dimension.

Data Types: single | double | int8 | int16 | int32 | uint8 | uint16 | uint32 | logical

Structuring element, specified as a single strel object or offsetstrel object. If the image I is data type logical, the structuring element must be flat.

Structuring element neighborhood, specified as a matrix of 0s and 1s.

Example: [0 1 0; 1 1 1; 0 1 0]

Output Arguments

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Opened image, returned as a grayscale image or binary image. J has the same class as input image I.

Extended Capabilities

See Also

Functions

Objects

Introduced before R2006a

Image Processing Toolbox Documentation

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