Authors:
            
                    Manuel González-Hidalgo
                    
                        
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Sebastià Massanet
                    
                        
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Arnau Mir
                    
                        
                    
                     and
                
                    Daniel Ruiz-Aguilera
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Edge Detection, Fuzzy Mathematical Morphology, Uninorms, Fuzzy Implications, Hysteresis.
        
        
            
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                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Artificial Intelligence
                    ; 
                        Computational Intelligence
                    ; 
                        Fuzzy Image, Speech and Signal Processing, Vision and Multimedia
                    ; 
                        Fuzzy Systems
                    ; 
                        Soft Computing
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                In this paper, we study the performance of the edge detector from the fuzzy mathematical morphology based on conjunctive uninorms. Several different pairs of uninorm and fuzzy implication (configurations) are considered in the fuzzy morphological gradient. The results are compared using an objective edge detection performance measure, the so-called Pratt’s figure of merit. To reinforce the analysis a K-means clustering algorithm has been applied to study the relation between the configurations and to determine which uninorm and implication have to be chosen to obtain an optimal edge detector. According to the analysis of the obtained results, the idempotent uninorm obtained using the classical negation, and its residual implication is the best configuration in this framework.