Parallel image component labeling with watershed transformation

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 441-450

  Moga, Alina N ^a   Gabbouj, Moncef ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Connected components; Efficient algorithms; Image segmentation; Parallel computing; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MASTER SLAVE PROCESSORS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE (MPI); PARALLEL IMAGE COMPONENT LABELING; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0031147191     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.589204     Document Type: Article

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