Title: Morphological Simplification of Archaeological Fracture Surfaces,
Abstract: We propose to employ scale spaces of mathematical morphology to
hierarchically simplify fracture surfaces of complementarily fitting
archaeological fragments. This representation preserves contact and is
insensitive to different kinds of abrasion affecting the exact complementarity
of the original fragments. We present a pipeline for morphologically
simplifying fracture surfaces, based on their Lipschitz nature; its core is a
new embedding of fracture surfaces to simultaneously compute both closing and
opening morphological operations, using distance transforms.