Accelerating compute-intensive image segmentation algorithms using GPUs |
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Authors: | Mohammed Shehab Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub Yaser Jararweh Moath Jarrah |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Computer Science,Jordan University of Science and Technology,Irbid,Jordan;2.Department of Computer Engineering,Jordan University of Science and Technology,Irbid,Jordan |
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Abstract: | Image segmentation is an important process that facilitates image analysis such as in object detection. Because of its importance, many different algorithms were proposed in the last decade to enhance image segmentation techniques. Clustering algorithms are among the most popular in image segmentation. The proposed algorithms differ in their accuracy and computational efficiency. This paper studies the most famous and new clustering algorithms and provides an analysis on their feasibility for parallel implementation. We have studied four algorithms which are: fuzzy C-mean, type-2 fuzzy C-mean, interval type-2 fuzzy C-mean, and modified interval type-2 fuzzy C-mean. We have implemented them in a sequential (CPU only) and a parallel hybrid CPU–GPU version. Speedup gains of 6\(\times \) to 20\(\times \) were achieved in the parallel implementation over the sequential implementation. We detail in this paper our discoveries on the portions of the algorithms that are highly parallel so as to help the image processing community, especially if these algorithms are to be used in real-time processing where efficient computation is critical. |
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