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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Sohailah Mohamed Rashed Alyammahi, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Ehab Najeh Salahat, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Hani Hasan Mustafa Saleh, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Andrzej Stefan Sluzek, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Mohammed Ismail Elnaggar, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, AE;
Abstract
An architecture for linear-time extraction of maximally stable extremal regions (MSERs) having an image memory, heap memory, a pointer array and processing hardware is disclosed. The processing hardware is configured to in real-time analyze image pixels in the image memory using a linear-time algorithm to identify a plurality of components of the image. The processing hardware is also configured to place the image pixels in the heap memory for each of the plurality of components of the image, generate a pointer that points to a location in the heap memory that is associated with a start of flooding for another component and store the pointer in the array of pointers. The processing hardware is also configured to access the plurality of components using the array of pointers and determine MSER ellipses based on the components and MSER criteria.