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Real-time/parallel computing

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OSTI ID:6791043

This book discusses the real-time, parallel computing of digitized images including both the symbolic and semantic data derived from such images. The processing, storing, and transmitting of images and image data are examined. Techniques and algorithms for the analysis and manipulation of images are explored both theoretically and in terms of implementation in hardware and software. The main subject areas covered are theoretical development, languages for image processing, new computer techniques, and implementation in special purpose real-time digital systems. Topics considered include digital picture processing, neighborhood operators, region relaxation in a parallel hierarchical architecture, generalized cellular automata, a family of distance transformations and their applications, image data modeling and language for parallel processing, parallel parsing of three languages and its application to syntactic pattern recognition, PIXAL, languages for parallel processing of images, real time region analysis, hybrid image processing, focus of attention, the virtual plane concept, a multi-microprocessor architecture, man-machine and interactive processing, an array processor, and color display. This volume is based on proceedings of part of the Japan-US Seminar on Research Towards Real-Time Parallel Image Analysis and Recognition held in Tokyo in 1978.

OSTI ID:
6791043
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English