Parallel video denoising on heterogeneous platforms

In this paper, a highly-effective parallel filter for video denoising is presented. The filter is designed using a skeletal approach, and has been implemented by way of the FastFlow parallel programming library. As a result of its high-level design, it is possible to run the filter seamlessly on a multi-core machine, on GPGPU(s), or on both. The design and implementation of the filter are discussed, and an experimental evaluation is presented. Various mappings of the filtering stages are comparatively discussed.

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