Connected component labeling (CCL) is a fundamental operation within image processing and computer vision, serving as the backbone for tasks such as object recognition, segmentation, and analysis. At ...

As mathematical abstractions go, graphs are among the simplest. Scatter a bunch of points in a plane. Connect some of them with lines. That’s all a graph is. And yet they are incredibly powerful. They ...

In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...