Efficient Component Labeling of Images of Arbitrary Dimension Represented by Linear Bintrees

@article{Samet1988EfficientCL,
  title={Efficient Component Labeling of Images of Arbitrary Dimension Represented by Linear Bintrees},
  author={Hanan Samet and Markku Tamminen},
  journal={IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.},
  year={1988},
  volume={10},
  pages={579-586}
}
An algorithm is presented to perform connected-component labeling of images of arbitrary dimension that are represented by a linear bintree. The bintree is a generalization of the quadtree data structure that enables dealing with images of arbitrary dimension. The linear bintree is a pointerless representation. The algorithm uses an active border which is represented by linked lists instead of arrays. This results in a significant reduction in the space requirements, thereby making it feasible… 
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