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Excerpt from Robotics Research Technical Report: Design of Fast Connected Components Hardware The algorithm consists of two passes. Pass 1 sweeps through the rows from bot tom to top, during which the groups in Gp are calculated inductively from the knowledge of Rp+1 by a simple updating rule. Pass 2 sweeps from top to bottom to assign component numbers to each pixel and outputs this symbolic image. In each row, runs belonging to the same group are associated by a simple mechanism, called bracket marking, as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.