A distributed image processing environment VIOS III and it's performance evaluation

We proposed a distributed image processing environment VIOS. In this paper, the third version, VIOS III is proposed. In VIOS III, a new parallel processing language VPE-p which has flexible syntax for describing parallel algorithms has been developed. The new programmable buffer for accessing global variables through a local area network is also proposed. The description ability for parallel image processing algorithms and processing performance using workstation clusters and a multi processor system are investigated by several image processing and recognition algorithms.