Finding the objects in a binary image without bwconncomp

I am trying to write an algorithm for finding the objects in my image without the builtin functions of Matlab. I want to use the nearest neibor approach and masking to find the number of objects. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

I'll redirect you to my previous answer to that exact same question by another poster: finding the objects in a binary image without bwconncomp