The Paprica massively parallel processor

Author

Broggi, A. ; Conte, G. ; Gregoretti, F. ; Sansoè, C. ; Reyneri, L.M.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell´´Inf., Parma Univ., Italy

fYear

1994

fDate

2-6 May 1994

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

30

Abstract

This paper describes a complete 6-year project, starting from its theoretical basis up to the hardware and software system implementation, and to the description of its future evolution. The main goal of the project is to develop a subsystem that operates as a processing unit attached to a standard workstation and in perspective as a low-cost low-sized specialized embedded system devoted to low level image analyses and cellular neural networks emulation. The architecture has been extensively used for basic low level image analysis tasks up to optical flow computation and feature tracking, showing encouraging performances even in the first prototype version

Keywords

image processing; image processing equipment; image sequences; neural nets; optical tracking; parallel machines; real-time systems; special purpose computers; Paprica; cellular neural networks; feature tracking; low level image analyses; massively parallel processor; neural networks emulation; optical flow computation; processing unit; software system; specialized embedded system; workstation; Cellular neural networks; Computer architecture; Embedded system; Emulation; Hardware; Image analysis; Optical computing; Software systems; Standards development; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Massively Parallel Computing Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ischia

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6322-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MPCS.1994.367020

Filename

367020