A systolic algorithm for euclidean distance transform

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1127-1134

  Miyazawa, Masafumi ^a   Zeng, Peifeng ^b   Iso, Naoyuki ^c   Hirata, Tomio ^d  

^a BROTHER INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^b DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Euclidean distance transform; hardware algorithm; image processing; systolic array

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33746412517     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2006.133     Document Type: Article

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