Title
Accelerating compute-intensive image segmentation algorithms using GPUs.
Abstract
Image segmentation is an important process that facilitates image analysis such as in object detection. Because of its importance, many different algorithms were proposed in the last decade to enhance image segmentation techniques. Clustering algorithms are among the most popular in image segmentation. The proposed algorithms differ in their accuracy and computational efficiency. This paper studies the most famous and new clustering algorithms and provides an analysis on their feasibility for parallel implementation. We have studied four algorithms which are: fuzzy C-mean, type-2 fuzzy C-mean, interval type-2 fuzzy C-mean, and modified interval type-2 fuzzy C-mean. We have implemented them in a sequential (CPU only) and a parallel hybrid CPU---GPU version. Speedup gains of 6$$\\times $$× to 20$$\\times $$× were achieved in the parallel implementation over the sequential implementation. We detail in this paper our discoveries on the portions of the algorithms that are highly parallel so as to help the image processing community, especially if these algorithms are to be used in real-time processing where efficient computation is critical.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s11227-016-1897-2
The Journal of Supercomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image segmentation,GPUs,Performance evaluation,Fuzzy clustering algorithms
Object detection,Scale-space segmentation,Computer science,Parallel computing,Fuzzy logic,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image processing,Algorithm,Image segmentation,Theoretical computer science,Cluster analysis,Speedup
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
73
5
0920-8542
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.55
26
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammed A. Shehab11046.94
Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub273063.41
Yaser Jararweh396888.95
Moath Jarrah410610.05