ABSTRACT
The first concepts of mathematical morphology were introduced by Georges Matheron (1975) as a part of his studies to find out the relationships between the geometry of porous media and their permeabilities in 1964, and later these studies were extensively developed by Jean Serra (1982) and followed by the scientists at Centre for Geostatistics and Mathematical Morphology (CGMM), Paris. This subject is mostly developed with having applications in stereology, microscopy, metallurgy, and in the fields of remote sensing, pattern recognition, and medical image processing. Most of the subject was developed at CGMM. Some others like Sternberg (1986) have introduced some of the pipeline transformations that are highly useful for grayscale functions. Even though mathematical morphology started around 1964, the work done was only on the binary images. The theory of mathematical morphology was introduced by J. Serra in 1975 and then developed by Lantuejoul (1978), Meyer (1980), and Beaucher (1990).
