%0 Conference Proceedings
%4 dpi.inpe.br/vagner/1999/11.29.10.13
%2 sid.inpe.br/banon/2001/03.30.15.58.31
%@doi 10.1109/SIBGRA.1999.805737
%T A new paradigm for the architecture of morphological machines: binary decision diagrams
%D 1999
%A Madeira, Heraldo M. F.,
%A Barrera, J.,
%A Jr., R. Hirata,
%A Hirata, N. S. T.,
%E Stolfi, Jorge,
%E Tozzi, Clésio Luis,
%B Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 12 (SIBGRAPI)
%C Campinas, SP, Brazil
%8 17-20 Oct. 1999
%I IEEE Computer Society
%J Los Alamitos
%P 293-301
%S Proceedings
%1 SBC - Brazilian Computer Society and UNICAMP - University of Campinas
%K mathematical morphology, morphological machine, architecture.
%X A central paradigm in Mathematical Morphology (MM) is the representation of set operators in terms of erosions, intersection, union, complementation and composition. A hardware or software that implement this decomposition structure is called a morphological machine (MMach). The architecture of all known MMachs has a central characteristic a small kernel with very fast procedures. Another well known decomposition result in MM is the defined) as an union of sup-generating (i.e., hit-or-miss) operators. In particular, erosion is a sup-generating operator. A remarkable property of this decomposition structure is that it can be represented efficiently by a graph called Binary Decision Diagram (BDD). In this paper, we propose a new architecture for an MMach that is based on BDDs and we compare it with the conventional architecture.
%3 060-02082546.pdf
%O The conference was held in Campinas, SP, Brazil, from October 17 to 20.