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Fast Streaming Algorithm for 1-D Morphological Opening and Closing on 2-D Support

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Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing (ISMM 2011)

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This paper presents a new streaming algorithm for 1-D morphological opening and closing transformations on 2-D support. Thanks to a recursive computation technique, the algorithm processes an image in constant time irrespective of the Structuring Element (SE) size, with a minimal latency and very low memory requirements, supporting various input data types. It reads and writes data strictly sequentially in the same (horizontal) scan order for both the horizontal and vertical SE. Aforementioned properties allow an efficient implementation in embedded hardware opening a new opportunity of a parallel computation.

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Bartovsky, J., Dokladal, P., Dokladalova, E., Bilodeau, M. (2011). Fast Streaming Algorithm for 1-D Morphological Opening and Closing on 2-D Support. In: Soille, P., Pesaresi, M., Ouzounis, G.K. (eds) Mathematical Morphology and Its Applications to Image and Signal Processing. ISMM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6671. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21569-8_26

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