title: A new parallel binary image shrinking algorithm.
abstract: A new parallel binary image shrinking algorithm that can be considered as an improvement of Levialdi's (1972) parallel shrinking algorithm and can be used in many image labeling algorithms as a basic operation in order to reduce the storage requirements for local memory and speed up the labeling process is presented. This new parallel shrinking algorithm shrinks an nxn binary image to an image with no black pixels in O(n) parallel steps with a multiplicative constant of 1.5, preserving the 8-connectivity in the shrinking process.
authors.affiliation: Center for Comput. Vision Res., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: G X
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Ritter