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Connected component labeling techniques on modern architectures

Abstract: In this paper we present an overview of the historical evolution of connected component labeling algorithms, and in particular the ones applied on images stored in raster scan order. This brief survey aims at providing a comprehensive comparison of their performance on modern architectures, since the high availability of memory and the presence of caches make some solutions more suitable and fast. Moreover we propose a new strategy for label propagation based on a 2x2 blocks, which allows to improve the performance of many existing algorithms. The tests are conducted on high resolution images obtained from digitized historical manuscripts and a set of transformations is applied in order to show the algorithms behavior at different image resolutions and with a varying number of labels.


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Grana, Costantino; Borghesani, Daniele; Cucchiara, Rita "Connected component labeling techniques on modern architectures" Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2009, vol. 5716, Vietri sul Mare, ita, pp. 816 -824 , Sep 8-11, 2009 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04146-4_87

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