8-1 2 Evaluation of Two Real Time Low Level Image

The IMAP-VISION - a SIMD architecture Thc papcr presents a study on the impact of using SIMD (S~ngc Instn~ct~on Multiple Data) techniques and architccturcs in low lcvel image processing. Speedups obtained on a SIMD parallel architecture (IMAP- VISION board) and a single Intel MMX processor computer are presented for different low-level image processing operators. While the IMAP-Vision system performs better bccause of the large number of processing elements, the MMX processor remains a good candidate for low-level image processing.