net.sourceforge.watershed.Watershed_Algorithm
nfo.nih.gov/ij/plugins/watershed.html This algorithm is an implementation of the watershed immersion algorithm written by Vincent and Soille (1991).
@Article{Vincent/Soille :1991, author = "Lee Vincent and Pierre Soille", year = "1991", keywords = "IMAGE-PROC SKELETON SEGMENTATION GIS", institution = "Harvard/Paris+Louvain", title = "Watersheds in digital spaces: An efficient algorithm based on immersion simulations", journal = "IEEE PAMI, 1991", volume = "13", number = "6", pages = "583--598", annote = "Watershed lines (e.g. the continental divide) mark the boundaries of catchment regions in a topographical map. The height of a point on this map can have a direct correlation to its pixel intensity. WIth this analogy, the morphological operations of closing (or opening) can be understood as smoothing the ridges (or filling in the valleys). Develops a new algorithm for obtaining the watershed lines in a graph, and then uses this in developing a new segmentation approach based on the {"}depth of immersion{"}.", } A review of Watershed algorithms can be found at : http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/publications/parwshed.pdf
@Article{RoeMei00, author = "Roerdink and Meijster", title = "The WatershedTransform: Definitions, Algorithms and Parallelization Strategies", journal = "FUNDINF: Fundamenta Informatica", volume = "41", publisher = "IOS Press", year = "2000", }