Accelerating multi-scale image fusion algorithms using CUDA

SoCPaR 2009 - Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 278-282

  Yoo, Seung Hun ^a   Park, Jin Hyung ^a   Jeong, Chang Sung ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CUDA; GPU; Image fusion; Pyramid; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; COMPUTING POWER; GPU; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH-SPEED; IMAGE FUSION ALGORITHMS; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; MULTISCALES; PYRAMID WAVELET; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SOFT COMPUTING; SPEED;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 77649334200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SoCPaR.2009.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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