Reconfigurable morphological image processing accelerator for video object segmentation

Journal of Signal Processing Systems

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-96

  Chien, Shao Yi ^a   Chen, Liang Gee ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hardware accelerator; Morphological image processing element array; Reconfigurable; Stream processor; Video object segmentation

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE ACCELERATORS; MORPHOLOGICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; RE-CONFIGURABLE; STREAM PROCESSOR; VIDEO-OBJECT SEGMENTATION;

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; HYDRAULICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MOTION COMPENSATION; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79251627912     PISSN: 19398018     EISSN: 19398115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11265-008-0311-6     Document Type: Article

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