Light speed labeling: Efficient connected component labeling on RISC architectures

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-135

  Lacassagne, Lionel ^a   Zavidovique, Bertrand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Algorithm architecture adequation; Connected component labeling; Line relative labeling; Real time implementation; Rosenfeld; Run length labeling; Selkow; Transitive closure computation

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; DECISION TREES; LIGHT VELOCITY; REAL TIME CONTROL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM ARCHITECTURES; CONNECTED COMPONENT LABELING; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATIONS; ROSENFELD; RUN LENGTH; SELKOW; TRANSITIVE CLOSURE COMPUTATIONS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 78650726129     PISSN: 18618200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11554-009-0134-0     Document Type: Article

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