VLSI chip architecture design for 2-D gray-level morphological operations

Kun-Min Yang; Petros Maragos; Lance T. Wu

doi:10.1117/12.21330

1 September 1990 VLSI chip architecture design for 2-D gray-level morphological operations

Kun-Min Yang, Petros Maragos, Lance T. Wu

Proceedings Volume 1297, Hybrid Image and Signal Processing II; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21330
Event: 1990 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1990, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The basic operations of mathematical morphology are quite useful for a broad area of image processing and analysis tasks. All morphological operations can be built from erosions and dilations. In this paper we develop a single chip VLSI architecture of an erosion/dilation algorithm for real-time image processing. The new architecture allows sequential inputs and performs parallel processing with 100 percent efficiency. The erosions (mm of differences) and dilations (max of additions) operate on 2-D gray-level image signals and use a 5 x 5-pixel gray-level structuring element. Two chips can be cascaded for a 7 x 7 structuring element. The overall chip design also provides the user with sufficient flexibility to optionally offset the output images by adding a constant level and/or scale their dynamic range. 1.

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Kun-Min Yang, Petros Maragos, and Lance T. Wu "VLSI chip architecture design for 2-D gray-level morphological operations", Proc. SPIE 1297, Hybrid Image and Signal Processing II, (1 September 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.21330

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