Preface
The 9th ISMM conference covered a very diverse collection of papers, bound
together by the central themes of mathematical morphology, namely, the treat-
ment of images in terms of set and lattice theory. Notwithstanding this central
theme, this ISMM showed increasing interaction with other fields of image and
signal processing, and several hybrid methods were presented, which combine
the strengths of traditional morphological methods with those of, for example,
linear filtering. This trend is particularly strong in the emerging field of adaptive
morphological filtering, where the local shape of structuring elements is deter-
mined by non-morphological techniques. This builds on previous developments
of PDE-based methods in morphology and amoebas. In segmentation we see
similar advancements, in the development of morphological active contours.
Even within morphology itself, diversification is great, and many new areas
of research are being opened up. In particular, morphology of graph-based and
complex-based image representations are being explored. Likewise, in the well-
established area of connected filtering we find new theory and new algorithms,
but also expansion into the direction of hyperconnected filters. New advances
in morphological machine learning, multi-valued and fuzzy morphology are also
presented.
Notwithstanding the often highly theoretical reputation of mathematical
morphology, practitioners in this field have always had an eye for the practical.
Most new theoretical and algorithmic developments are driven by urgent needs
from practical applications. Thus many application areas are covered in this
volume, ranging from biomedical imaging, through materials science to satellite
imaging and traffic analysis. The development of standardized software packages
which make all the latest algorithms easily available to the image processing pro-
fessional is very much a part of this practical side of morphology.
Finally, we wish to thank all the members of the Program Committee for
their efforts in reviewing all submissions and giving extensive feedback, essential
to the quality and success of this conference.
June 2009 Michael Wilkinson
Jos Roerdink
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