Parallel implementation of exact dilations and multi-scale skeletonization

✍ Scribed by Maximiliam Luppe; Luciano da Fontoura Costa; Valentin Obac Roda

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 578 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1077-2014
• DOI: 10.1016/s1077-2014(03)00016-0

✦ Synopsis

Skeletonization has become an important pre-processing step in shape analysis and pattern recognition as it expresses the hierarchical organization of data to be analysed and simplifies the computational procedures. More recently, architectures for image processing have greatly benefitted from the use of reconfigurable devices such as field programmable gate arrays and complex programmable logic devices. We present in this work the implementation of a versatile method for Exact Dilation using reconfigurable devices. The developed method allows us to extract skeletons and other important features from an image.