Summary: P i ps--- A general purpose Parallel Image
Processing System ?
Michael N¨olle, Gerald Schreiber, Hanns Schulz­Mirbach
Technische Universit¨at Hamburg­Harburg
Technische Informatik I
21071 Hamburg, Germany
In G. Kropatsch, 16. DAGM ­ Symposium 'Mustererkennung', Wien,
Sep. 1994, Informatik X­Press, TU­Wien.
Abstract. In this paper we discuss general requirements for parallel
implementations of image processing algorithms. Of special importance
are the communication demands in the parallel system which are de­
termined by the algorithm under consideration. These communication
demands are decisive for determining the best way to distribute the im­
age data to the network processors. Analysing these factors for some
typical image processing algorithms reveals that it is difficult to find a
fixed network structure which meets all the demands equally well. A
possibility to cope with these problems is to embed different topologies
into a fixed network structure. The mentioned factors were guidelines for
the design of the general purpose Parallel Image Processing System P i ps .
We describe the structure of this software package and elucidate for some

Source: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik,, Lehrstuhls für Mustererkennung und Bildverarbeitung

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