Morphological Image Processing

This book describes image processing research based on the morphology of theobjects in an image and a VLSI design of a Cellular Logic Processing Elementfor a re... » 

This book describes image processing research based on the morphology of theobjects in an image and a VLSI design of a Cellular Logic Processing Elementfor a realtime processor pipeline. br The field of image processing hasspawned a number of special parallel computer architectures the Square SIMDProcessor Array the Pyramid the Linear Processor Array or scan line arrayand the Processor Pipeline. This book features a classification of lowlevelimage processing operations reviews some intermediate level algorithms andgives a short introduction into computer architecture used for image anddigital signal processing. Morphologybased processing images is introduced bytreating cellular logic operations such as skeletonization as hitormisstransformations. This approach can be extended to images of higher dimensionsthan two and a method is described to construct hitormiss masks for theskeletonization of these images. br In the second part of the book a study isperformed on the speed bottlenecks that can be found in the main architecturalgroups followed by the description of a method for the structured design ofintegrated digital hardware. br The VLSI design of a CMOS Processing Elementfor the realtime processing of binary images and the board level design of ascalable processor pipeline for a realtime lowlevel processing of grey valueimages is described in detail. br Finally a computer architecture for low andintermediate processing of two and three dimensional images if proposed. br «