A fast recursive shortest spanning tree for image segmentation and edge detection

  • Authors:
  • S. H. Kwok;A. G. Constantinides

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Polytech., Kowloon;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This correspondence presents a fast recursive shortest spanning tree algorithm for image segmentation and edge detection. The conventional algorithm requires a complexity of o(n2) for an image of n pixels, while the complexity of our approach is bounded by O(n), which is a new lower bound for algorithms of this kind. The total memory requirement of our fast algorithm is 20% smaller