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In the last decade, many papers have been published to present sequential connected component labeling (CCL) algorithms. As modern processors are multi-core and tend to many cores, designing a CCL algorithm should address parallelism and multithreading. After a review of sequential CCL algorithms and a study of their variations, this paper presents the parallel version of the Light Speed Labeling for connected component analysis (CCA) and compares it to our parallelized implementations of State-of-the-Art sequential algorithms. We provide some benchmarks that help to figure out the intrinsic differences between these parallel algorithms. We show that thanks to its run-based processing, the LSL is intrinsically more efficient and faster than all pixel-based algorithms. We show also, that all the pixel-based are memory-bound on multi-socket machines and so are inefficient and do not scale, whereas LSL, thanks to its RLE compression can scale on such high-end machines. On a 4 × 15-core machine, and for 8192 × 8192 images, LSL outperforms its best competitor by a factor ×10.8 and achieves a throughput of 42.4 gigapixel labeled per second.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge Francois Hannebicq from Intel France for his valuable help and the access to the high-end 4 × 15-core IvyBridge Xeon machine.
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Cabaret, L., Lacassagne, L. & Etiemble, D. Parallel Light Speed Labeling: an efficient connected component algorithm for labeling and analysis on multi-core processors. J Real-Time Image Proc 15, 173–196 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-016-0574-2
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