Morphological operations like dilation and erosion are non-linear image transformations used to extract shape-related information from images by processing objects based on their morphology or shape properties using a structuring element, with dilation adding pixels to object boundaries and erosion removing pixels from object boundaries. The size and shape of the structuring element controls the number of pixels added or removed during these operations, which are used for tasks like noise removal, feature extraction, and image segmentation.
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