Abstract:
Real-time system requires not only the perfect
result but also the partial usable result which produces
in time under time restriction. Morphological method
is a tool for extracting image components that are
useful in the representation and description of region
shape, such as boundaries, and skeletons, which are
especially applied in image preprocessing. This paper
proposes a new approach to morphological method
using anytime algorithm for boundary extraction. First,
multi-structuring elements are constructed by changing
the direction. Then,morphology erosionoperation
usingmulti-structuring element is performed step by
step by using the previous result as input at current
stepaccording to the concept of anytime algorithm. We
can confirm the effectiveness of proposed method by
the experimental resultswith coarse-to-fine results and
the quality of results improves when the processing
time increases. This gives an idea to solving the time
quality trade-off problem in real-time image
processing.
