HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR REAL-TIME DISTANCE TRANSFORM

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 1999, Pages 1957-1960

  Takala, Jarmo H ^a   Kitanen, Jouko O ^b   Saarinen, Jukka P P ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; BINARY IMAGES; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; EXACT EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; FOREGROUND FEATURES; FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND; GRAY LEVEL IMAGE; GREY-LEVEL IMAGES; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; REAL- TIME; TIME-DISTANCE;

PIXELS;

EID: 0003969723     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.1999.758309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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