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Hypercube and shuffle-exchange algorithms for image-component labeling. Technical report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6601250
This paper presents algorithms for labeling the connected components of a binary image using a hypercube or shuffle-exchange computer. The algorithms label the components of an sq 1 + N x sq 1 + N pixel image in O(long sq of N) time using a hypercube or shuffle-exchange computer with N processors and a constant amount of memory per processor. The algorithms that are presented are the first to solve this problem in O(log sq of N) time. The algorithms are based on a divide-and-conquer approach and use as a subroutine an O(log N) time PRAM algorithm for labeling the connected components of a graph. The simulation of the PRAM by the hypercube and shuffle-exchange computers is particularly efficient because the PRAM that is being simulated has only O(N to the 3/4 power) processors and memory cells.
Research Organization:
Washington Univ., Seattle (USA). Dept. of Computer Science
OSTI ID:
6601250
Report Number(s):
AD-A-197574/7/XAB; TR-87-04-03
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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