A Parallel Implementation for Computing the Region-Adjacency-Tree of a Segmentation of a 2D Digital Image

Adv Image Video Technol. 2016 Feb 25:9555:98-109. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-30285-0_9.

Abstract

A design and implementation of a parallel algorithm for computing the Region-Adjacency Tree of a given segmentation of a 2D digital image is given. The technique is based on a suitable distributed use of the algorithm for computing a Homological Spanning Forest (HSF) structure for each connected region of the segmentation and a classical geometric algorithm for determining inclusion between regions. The results show that this technique scales very well when executed in a multicore processor.

Keywords: Digital image; Parallel algorithm; RAG; Segmentation.