New results and measurements related to some tasks in object-oriented dynamic image coding using CNN universal chips

Cellular neural/nonlinear networks (CNN) are considered for efficient implementation of the most computationally intensive steps of dynamic image coding. Several analogic CNN algorithms are presented for the generation of binary image masks and image decomposition. Measurement results for the first CNN universal chips executing an analogic algorithm for a reconstruction operator are also presented. Based on measured execution times, the viability of the CNN implementation of efficient but computationally expensive compression algorithms such as dynamic image coding is assessed.

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