Data Flow Implementation of Erosion and Dilation

Abstract

This chapter describes a data flow implementation of the image processing algorithms Erosion and Dilation. Erosion and Dilation are basic image processing algorithms which are used to reduce or increase the size of objects in images, respectively, and which are used in a wide number of image processing applications. The chapter first describes the control flow versions of the algorithms in detail. Subsequently, the translation of these algorithms to the Data Flow paradigm is examined, and the details of the data flow implementation as well as possible optimizations are discussed.