Cellular watersheds: A parallel implementation of the watershed transform on the CNN universal machine

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 791-794

  Eom, Seongeun ^a   Shin, Vladimir ^a   Ahn, Byungha ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cellular neural network universal machine; Image segmentation; Parallel implementation; Watershed transform

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORK UNIVERSAL MACHINE; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION; WATERSHED TRANSFORM;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34247148115     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.4.791     Document Type: Article

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