Opening (morphology)
In mathematical morphology, opening is the dilation of the erosion of a set A by a structuring element B: A ∘ B = ( A ⊖ B ) ⊕ B , {\displaystyle A\circ B=(A\ominus B)\oplus B,\,} where ⊖ {\displaystyle \ominus } and ⊕ {\displaystyle \oplus } denote erosion and dilation, respectively. Together with closing, the opening serves in computer vision and image processing as a basic workhorse of morphological noise removal.