An improved constant-time algorithm for computing the Radon and Hough transforms on a reconfigurable mesh

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 417-421

  Pan, Yi ^a   Li, Keqin ^b   Hamdi, Mounir ^c  

^a University of Dayton   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hough transform; Image processing; Reconfigurable mesh; Time complexity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VLSI CIRCUITS;

RADON TRANSFORMS; RECONFIGURABLE MESH; TIME COMPLEXITY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032637816     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.769762     Document Type: Article

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