This article addresses the connected-component labeling problem which consists in
assigning a unique label to all pixels of each connected component (ie, each object) in a …

Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a general purpose programmable logic device
that can be configured by a customer after manufacturing to perform from a simple logic gate …

Computer and Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities (previously entitled
Machine Vision) clearly and systematically presents the basic methodology of computer and …

Food recognition is difficult because food items are de-formable objects that exhibit
significant variations in appearance. We believe the key to recognizing food is to exploit the …

Pitting corrosion can lead to critical failures of infrastructure elements. Therefore, accurate
detection of corroded areas is crucial during the phase of structural health monitoring. This …

This paper describes a high-frame-rate (HFR) vision system that can extract locations and
features of multiple objects in an image at 2000 f/s for 512× 512 images by implementing a …

In this paper, a hardware implementation in reconfigurable logic of a single-pass connected
component labelling (CCL) and connected component analysis (CCA) module is presented …

Over the past two decades, the use of low power Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
for the acceleration of various vision systems mainly on embedded devices have become …

Connected Component Analysis (CCA) plays an important role in several image analysis
and pattern recognition algorithms. Being one of the most time-consuming tasks in such …

Ultra-high-speed object detection and tracking are crucial in fields such as fault detection
and scientific observation. Existing solutions to this task have deficiencies in processing …