Parallel processing for image and video processing: Issues and challenges

Parallel Computing

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 694-699

  Merigot, Alain ^a   Petrosino, Alfredo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Distributed computing; Image analysis; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROGRAMMING; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES;

IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS; ISSUES AND CHALLENGES; PARALLEL LIBRARY; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PARALLELIZATION TOOLS; PARALLELIZATIONS; VISION PROBLEMS;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 56049083463     PISSN: 01678191     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parco.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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