Parallel processing for computer vision and display

Book · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5000948

Dew, P M ^[1]; Earnshaw, R A ^[2]; Heywood, T R ^[3]

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1. Leeds Univ. (United Kingdom). Dept. of Computer Studies
2. Univ. Computing Service, Univ. of Leeds (GB)
3. IBM UK Scientific Centre, Winchester (GB)

The widespread availability of high performance computers has led to an increased awareness of the importance of visualization techniques particularly in engineering and science. However, many visualization tasks involve processing large amounts of data or manipulating complex computer models of 3D objects. For example, in the field of computer aided engineering it is often necessary to display an edit solid object (see Plate 1) which can take many minutes even on the fastest serial processors. Another example of a computationally intensive problem, this time from computer vision, is the recognition of objects in a 3D scene from a stereo image pair. To perform visualization tasks of this type in real and reasonable time it is necessary to exploit the advances in parallel processing that have taken place over the last decade. This book uniquely provides a collection of papers from leading visualization researchers with a common interest in the application and exploitation of parallel processing techniques.

• OSTI ID: 5000948
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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