Local hierarchical processing focus shift within an image

Details Local hierarchical processing focus shift within an image Local hierarchical processing focus shift within an image

1990-06-08

1993-03-09

Boudreau, Leo H.

Image analysis

Histogram processing

For setting a threshold

382 27, G06K 900

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051931257

ABSTRACT:
And in-place hierarchical technique shifts a spatial processing focus within a two-dimensional array in a SIMD parallel framework. The hierarchical process uniquely associates a rectangular region with each image location at each level of the hierarchy. Each of these regions at a given level is the union of two child regions at the next lower level, one of which is associated with the same image location. In an upward pass, an occupancy bit is stored at each location at each level of the hierarchy, indicating whether the respective region at that level includes any pixels that meet a specified criterion for selecting the new processing focus. In a downward pass, the focus is shifted at each step to a pixel associated with one of the child regions of the region associated with the focus, the child region's occupancy bit being on. This involves a random or arbitrary choice between the two children when both of their occupancy bits are on. The scheme is uniform, local, and parallel; it is particularly efficient because the array contents are never accessed by the central processor.

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Koch, C., and Ullman, S., "Selecting One Among the Many: A Simple Network Implementing Shifts in Selective Visual Attention," MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, A.l. Memo 770, Jan. 1984, pp. 1-18.

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