• DocumentCode
    703377
  • Title

    A disjoint set algorithm for the watershed transform

  • Author

    Meijster, Arnold ; Roerdink, Jos B. T. M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Math. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    8-11 Sept. 1998
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this paper the implementation of a watershed transform based on Tarjan´s Union-Find algorithm is described. The algorithm computes the watershed as defined by Meyer in [4]. The algorithm consists of two stages. In the first stage the image to be segmented is transformed into a lower complete image, using a FIFO-queue algorithm. In the second stage, the watershed of the lower complete image is computed. In this stage no FIFO-queues are used. This feature makes parallel implementation of the watershed transform much easier.
  • Keywords
    image segmentation; queueing theory; FIFO-queue algorithm; Tarjan union-find algorithm; disjoint set algorithm; image segmentation; parallel implementation; watershed transform; Arrays; Computers; Image segmentation; Morphology; Signal processing algorithms; Transforms; Vegetation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 1998), 9th European
  • Conference_Location
    Rhodes
  • Print_ISBN
    978-960-7620-06-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7089848