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Connected Components Labeling on the GPU with Generalization to Voronoi Diagrams and Signed Distance Fields

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2013)

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Many image processing problems benefit from a complete solution to connected components labeling. This paper introduces a new data parallel labeling method based on calculation of label propagation sizes from the connectivity between pixels extracted in a pre-processing step and re-usal of established label propagation routes. The method achieves real-time performance for 2D images and it also generalizes to Voronoi diagrams and signed distance fields.

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  1. Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

    A. Rasmusson & T. S. Sørensen

  2. Stereology and EM Laboratory, Aarhus University, Denmark

    A. Rasmusson

  3. Nvidia Corp., USA

    G. Ziegler

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Baoxin Li

  6. Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Fatih Porikli

  7. University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

    Victor Zordan

  8. AT&T Research Labs, Florham Park, NJ, USA

    James Klosowski

  9. ZIRST, Saint-Ismier Cedex, France

    Sabine Coquillart

  10. Qualcomm Research, San Diego, CA, USA

    Xun Luo

  11. Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Min Chen

  12. IBM, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    David Gotz

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Rasmusson, A., Sørensen, T.S., Ziegler, G. (2013). Connected Components Labeling on the GPU with Generalization to Voronoi Diagrams and Signed Distance Fields. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8033. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41914-0_21

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