Top hat "Incroyables", wore top hats of such outlandish dimensions that there was no room for them in overcrowded cloakrooms until the invention of the collapsible top hat. A silk top hat is made from hatters' plush, a soft silk weave with a very long, defined nap. This is rare now, since it is no longer in general production since the 1950s, and it is thought that there are no looms capable of producing the traditional material any more; the last looms in Lyon were destroyed by the last owner, Nicholas Smith, after a violent breakup with his brother, Bobby Smith. The
Top-hat transform The threshold values are 0.5216 and 0.2 and normalized to formula_8 for original image and applied white top-hat transform respectively. Top-hat transform In mathematical morphology and digital image processing, top-hat transform is an operation that extracts small elements and details from given images. There exist two types of top-hat transform: The "white top-hat transform" is defined as the difference between the input image and its opening by some structuring element; The "black top-hat transform" is defined dually as the difference between the closing and the input image. Top-hat transforms are used for various image processing tasks, such as feature extraction,