A nonlinear oscillator network for gray-level image segmentation and PWM/PPM circuits for its VLSI implementation

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E82-A, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 329-336

  Ando, Hiroshi ^a   Morie, Takashi ^a   Nagata, Makoto ^a   Iwata, Atsushi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; LEGION; LSI implementation; Nonlinear oscillator network; PPM; Pulse modulation; PWM

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VLSI CIRCUITS;

NONLINEAR OSCILLATOR NETWORKS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPICE;

NONLINEAR NETWORKS;

EID: 0033904874     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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