Load balancing for a class of irregular and dynamic problems: Region growing image segmentation algorithms

Proceedings of the 7th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, PDP 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 163-169

  Gil Montoya, M D ^a   Gil, C ^a   Garcia I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROBLEM; IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; IRREGULAR PROBLEMS; LOAD-BALANCING; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; REGION GROWING; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SINGLE PROGRAM MULTIPLE DATA; SPLIT-AND-MERGE APPROACH;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0038491671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMPDP.1999.746660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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