Special session paper: significance-driven adaptive approximate computing for energy-e!icient image processing applications

With increasing resolutions the volume of data generated by image processing applications is escalating dramatically. When coupled with real-time performance requirements, reducing energy con- sumption for such a large volume of data is proving challenging.

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