Optimal computing Hough transform on a reconfigurable array of processors with wider bus networks

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 603-613

  Lee, Shung Shing ^a   Horng, Shi Jinn ^a   Kao, Tzong Wann ^b   Tsai, Horng Ren ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bus network; Computer vision; Histogram; Hough transform; Image processing; Parallel algorithms; Prefix sum; Reconfigurable array of processors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER VISION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMBER THEORY; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BUS NETWORKS; HISTOGRAM; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; PREFIX SUM; RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY OF PROCESSORS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030126640     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00108-5     Document Type: Article

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