Kiwivision II - A Hybrid Pipelined/Multitransputer Architecture For Machine Vision

This paper describes a hybrid architecture called Kiwivision II which is currently under development at DSIR in New Zealand. Kiwivision I is a modular pipelined architecture, developed by one of the authors (CCB), which is primarily suitable for low-level image processing operations. Kiwivision II is an enhanced architecture which will combine a commercially available pipelined system and a reconfigurable multitransputer network into a hybrid architecture suitable for a broad range of vision applications.