Cost modeling for early image processing applications

Author

Robinson, William H. ; Wills, D. Scott

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

29

Lastpage

34

Abstract

This paper describes a method to evaluate image applications mapped to a focal plane processing array with a single pixel per processing element. An application is specified and compiled to a common instruction set architecture. The application is then simulated to create a dynamic workload. A design space of possible execution machines is compiled using predicted performances and costs for computation, communication, and storage operations. The application workload is evaluated against the design space of execution machines based on a weighted metric of cost and performance

Keywords

digital storage; focal planes; image processing; parallel processing; application workload evaluation; common instruction set architecture; communication costs; computation costs; cost modeling; design space; dynamic workload; early image processing applications; execution machines; focal plane processing array; image application evaluation; integrated processing element; predicted performances; storage operation costs; weighted cost-performance metric; Application software; CMOS image sensors; Computer architecture; Costs; Data acquisition; Image processing; Image storage; Pixel; Sensor arrays; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital and Computational Video, 2001. Proceedings. Second International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1110-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DCV.2001.929939

Filename

929939