A Parallel Algorithm for Dilated Contour Extraction from Bilevel Images

01/25/2000

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by   B. R. Schlei, et al.

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We describe a simple, but efficient algorithm for the generation of dilated contours from bilevel images. The initial part of the contour extraction is explained to be a good candidate for parallel computer code generation. The remainder of the algorithm is of linear nature.