We describe a simple, but efficient algorithm for the generation of dilated contours from bilevel images. The initial part of the contour extraction is explained to be a good candidate for parallel computer code generation. The remainder of the algorithm is of linear nature.
@article{arxiv.cs/0001024,
title = {A Parallel Algorithm for Dilated Contour Extraction from Bilevel Images},
author = {B. R. Schlei and L. Prasad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0001024},
year = {2007}
}
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5 pages, including 3 figures. For additional detail check http://www.nis.lanl.gov/~bschlei/labvis/index.html