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In this paper the use of oriented zero crossings of bandpassed images as representational primitives for hierarchical operations is discussed. Some theoretical properties of oriented zero crossings are presented and a hardware system for the production of a zero-crossing “pyramid” is proposed. The hardware processor utilizes a set of “systolic” array processors which implement two-dimensional digital lowpass and bandpass filters as well as zero-crossing detectors and zero-crossing orientation measurements. A multilevel interleaved system is described which allows concurrent processing of two sets of image descriptions and ensures that the component processing elements are utilized to the fullest. Results provided by simulations of the system applied to real imagery are described.
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Clark, J.J., Lawrence, P.D. (1984). A Hierarchical Image Analysis System Based Upon Oriented Zero Crossings of Bandpassed Images. In: Rosenfeld, A. (eds) Multiresolution Image Processing and Analysis. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51590-3_11
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