Memory Organization for Image Segmentation Based on Region Growing

Abstract

A solution is proposed for determining and organizing the size of the FIFO-stack in memory, required for load the coordinates of adjoining pixels in an image segmentation algorithm based on region growing. The FIFO-stack, organized on the idea of a ring multi-bit shift register, is considered, and the expression of memory calculations is performed through storing process in parallel registers. The conditions for maximum loading of the memory stack are formulated, for which an expression is obtained that allowing to accurately determining the required size of the FIFO-stack, which provides memory resources savings.