Optimizing the census transform on CUDA enabled GPUs

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, ICCP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 201-207

  Pantilie, Cosmin D ^a   Nedevschi, Sergiu ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Census Transform; GPU; image processing; parallel processing

Indexed keywords

2-D CONVOLUTION; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; CURRENT GENERATION; DATA PARALLELISM; GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTING; GPU; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HARDWARE FEATURES; OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE; PARALLEL PROCESSING; POPULAR PLATFORM; STEREO RECONSTRUCTION;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84871600312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCP.2012.6356186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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