Benchmarking processors for image processing

Abstract A range of commercially available processors is investigated to evaluate their potential in image processing systems. The examination covers a selection of the more important instructions in use in image processing algorithms and a selection of the algorithms themselves as a simple benchmark. It also includes a survey of multiprocessor systems implemented with some of these processors. It is concluded that digital signal processors (DSPs) are better suited to embedded systems but the transputer may offer advantages in a research environment, of general usefulness for supercomputing power.