A hybrid morphology processing units architecture for real-time video segmentation systems

In this paper, we propose a hybrid morphology processing units architecture for real-time video segmentation systems. It contains two parts: a gray-level part and a binary part. A partial-result-reuse technique is applied to reduce the hardware cost of gray-level part. For the target of high throughput and flexibility, the binary part is implemented with a programmable PE array. Simulation shows the proposed hardware architecture is efficient in both hardware complexity and memory organization.