Geodesic Morphological Reconstruction
- Author: HfT Stuttgart (c) 2013
- Menu: Grid | Filter
Description
Geodesic morphological reconstruction according to Vincent (1993). Here we use the algorithm on p. 194: Computing of Regional Maxima and Breadth-first Scanning.
A marker is derived from the input grid by subtracting a constant shift value. Optionally, the shift value can be set to zero at the border of the grid ("Preserve 1px border Yes/No" parameter). The final result is a grid showing the difference between the input image and the morphological reconstruction of the marker under the input image. If the Option "Create a binary mask" is selected, the difference grid is thresholded with provided threshold value to create a binary image of maxima regions. 
References
- Arefi, H., Hahn, M. (2005): A Morphological Reconstruction Algorithm for Separating Off-Terrain Points from Terrain Points in Laser Scanning Data. Proceedings of the ISPRS Workshop Laser Scanning 2005, Enschede, the Netherlands, September 12-14, 2005 PDF.
- Vincent, L. (1993): Morphological Grayscale Reconstruction in Image Analysis: Applications and Efficient Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 2, No 2. doi: 10.1109/83.217222.
Parameters
|  | Name | Type | Identifier | Description | Constraints | 
|---|
| Input | Input Grid | grid, input | INPUT_GRID | Input for the morphological reconstruction | - | 
| Output | Morphological Reconstruction | grid, output | DIFFERENCE_GRID | Reconstruction, difference to input grid. | - | 
| Objects | grid, output, optional | OBJECT_GRID | Binary object mask | - | 
| Options | Grid System | grid system | PARAMETERS_GRID_SYSTEM | - | - | 
| Shift Value | floating point number | SHIFT_VALUE | - | Default: 5.000000 | 
| Preserve 1px border | boolean | BORDER_YES_NO | - | Default: 1 | 
| Threshold | floating point number | THRESHOLD | Threshold for object identification. | Minimum: 0.000000
Default: 1.000000 | 
Command Line
Usage: saga_cmd grid_filter 12 [-INPUT_GRID ] [-DIFFERENCE_GRID ] [-OBJECT_GRID ] [-SHIFT_VALUE ] [-BORDER_YES_NO ] [-THRESHOLD ]
  -INPUT_GRID:     	Input Grid
	grid, input
  -DIFFERENCE_GRID:	Morphological Reconstruction
	grid, output
  -OBJECT_GRID:    	Objects
	grid, output, optional
  -SHIFT_VALUE: 	Shift Value
	floating point number
	Default: 5.000000
  -BORDER_YES_NO:  	Preserve 1px border
	boolean
	Default: 1
  -THRESHOLD:   	Threshold
	floating point number
	Minimum: 0.000000
	Default: 1.000000