Decomposition of 3d convex structuring element in morphological operation for parallel processing architectures

  • Authors:
  • Syng-Yup Ohn

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Engineering, Hankuk Aviation University, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Morphological operations with 3D images require a huge amount of computation. The decomposition of structuring elements used in the morphological operations such as dilation and erosion greatly reduces the amount of computation. This paper presents a new method for the decomposition of a 3D convex structuring element into a set of basis convex structuring elements. Furthermore, the decomposition method is applied to the neighborhood decomposition, in which each basis is one of the combinations of the origin voxel and its 26 neighborhood voxels. First, we derived the set of decomposition conditions on the lengths of the original and the basis convex structuring elements, and then the decomposition problem is converted into a linear integer optimization problem. The objective of the optimization is to minimize a cost function representing the optimal criterion of the parallel processing computer architecture on which the operation is performed. Thus, our method can be used to obtain the different optimal decompositions minimizing the amount of computation for different parallel processing computer architectures.