minima

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Name

minima - detection of local minima

Syntax

 #include <xite/extrema.h>

 int minima( IBAND inband, IBAND outband,
    int fg, int bg );

Description

Local minima are detected in inband, and marked in outband with value fg, foreground. All other pixels are marked bg, background.

Restrictions

Supports only unsigned byte.

See also

minima(1), extrema1(3), extrema2(3), maxima(3)

Return value

 0 => ok
 1 => bad input pixel type
 2 => bad output pixel type
 3 => bad fg or bg value

Reference

B.B. Chaudhuri and B.Uma Shankar: "An efficient algorithm for extrema detection in digital images" Pattern Recognition Letters 10 (1989), 81-85.

Author

Tor L|nnestad, BLAB, ifi, UiO

Id

$Id: minima.c,v 1.19 1996/11/08 14:03:25 svein Exp $