Paper:
Anisotropic Dynamic-Morphological-Diffusion for Segmentation of Noisy Color Images
Junji Maeda*, Takehiro Harada**, Sato Saga*,
and Yukinori Suzuki*
*Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, 27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido 050-8585, Japan
**Seiko Epson Corporation, 3-3-5 Owa, Suwa, Nagano 392-8502, Japan
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