Title
Contour chain-coding and topological hierarchy analysis in a 2×3 window single-pass raster scan
Abstract
This paper presents a fast and effective method for generating chain-encoded representations of arbitrary contours of connected regions in a binary image. Furthermore, an optional method is presented allowing the additional concurrent extraction of the topological hierarchy tree within the image. Both parts of the algorithm are executed by means of a single raster scan with a 2×3 neighborhood convolution window. This not only allows the reduction of the pixel buffer to a single image line, it furthermore enables fast neighborhood evaluation by means of a moderately sized look-up-table with 64 entries, to be directly addressed by the six pixel in window focus. With these main characteristics, the algorithm is well suited for efficient parallel processing implementations in streaming applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TSP.2013.6614067
Telecommunications and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
convolution,image coding,binary image,concurrent extraction,connected region,contour chain coding,contour representation,fast neighborhood evaluation,moderately sized look up table,neighborhood convolution window,parallel processing implementations,pixel buffer,single image line,single pass raster scan,streaming application,topological hierarchy analysis,topological hierarchy tree,binary image coding,boundary extraction,chain coding,topological analysis,trees
Topology,Computer vision,Computer science,Convolution,Effective method,Free boundary condition,Binary image,Coding (social sciences),Raster scan,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Neighborhood operation
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4799-0402-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Scheffler110.73
Frank Schumacher211.05
Thomas Greiner3347.48