A Multiprocessor System for Dynamic Scene Analysis

Computer vision and digital image processing require a large amount of computation. A complete vision system, such as VISIONS [17], requires many number-crunching operations at the low level and sophisticated decision making at high-level. The advances in LSI and VLSI circuits have influenced researchers in computer vision and digital image processing. Many approaches for fast image processing using a network of processors have been presented [1–3,6,7,17]. However, parallelism has been applied mostly to those problems that are well defined or where use of partitioning is obvious. The problems encountered in the real world are serial in nature and it is difficult to incorporate parallelism directly.

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