Figure 8.

A toy example showing dilation operation in binary images. 3 × 3 pixels structural element is given (a). A group of 11 pixels (b) is the experimental image. In (c), structural element is centered with a pixel of base image, and six new pixels added to original image at this steps. In another step (d), structural element is centered with the most left pixel of image, and five surrounding pixels are converted 0 to 1. Final outcome is given in (e), where blue ones represent effect of dilation operation.