The GIOTTO system: A parallel computer for image processing

Real-Time Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 343-353

  Cucchiara, Rita ^a   Di Stefano, Luigi ^b   Piccardi, Massimo ^a   Cinotti, Tullio Salmon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA (SIMD) ARRAYS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031245317     PISSN: 10072014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/rtim.1996.0069     Document Type: Article

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