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Pyramidal Systems for Computer Vision

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Virginio Cantoni

    1. Istituto di Informatica e Sistematica, Pavia University, Pavia, Italy

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  2. Stefano Levialdi

    1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Rome University, Rome, Italy

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Part of the book series: NATO ASI Subseries F: (NATO ASI F, volume 25)

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Parallel, Hierarchical Software/Hardware Pyramid Architectures

    • Leonard Uhr
    Pages 1-20

  3. I.P. Hierarchical Systems: Architectural Features

    • V. Cantoni
    Pages 21-39

  4. General Purpose Pyramidal Architectures

    • Gerhard Fritsch
    Pages 41-58

  5. Pyramids — Expected Performance

    • M. J. B. Duff
    Pages 59-73

  6. Hypercubes and Pyramids

    • Quentin F. Stout
    Pages 75-89

  7. Architectural Comparisons

    • S. Castan
    Pages 91-108

  8. A Pyramidal System for Image Processing

    • A. Merigot, P. Clermont, J. Mehat, F. Devos, B. Zavidovique
    Pages 109-124

  9. Counting on the Gam Pyramid

    • David H. Schaefer, Ping Ho
    Pages 125-131

  10. A Pipelined Pyramid Machine

    • P. J. Burt, C. H. Anderson, J. O. Sinniger, G. van der Wal
    Pages 133-152

  11. The Papia Controller: Hardware Implementation

    • Gaetano Gerardi
    Pages 153-163

  12. Custom Made Pyramids

    • Shmuel Peleg, Orna Federbusch
    Pages 165-171

  13. Paradigms for Pyramid Machine Algorithms

    • Steven L. Tanimoto
    Pages 173-194

  14. Pyramid Algorithms on Processor Arrays

    • Anthony P. Reeves
    Pages 195-213

  15. Pyramidal Transforms in Image Processing and Computer Vision

    • Ph. W. Besslich
    Pages 215-246

  16. Overlapping in Compact Pyramids

    • M. Ferretti
    Pages 247-260

  17. Some Pyramid Techniques for Image Segmentation

    • Azriel Rosenfeld
    Pages 261-271

  18. Segmentation of Textured Images by Pyramid Linking

    • Bradley P. Kjell, Charles R. Dyer
    Pages 273-288

  19. Local motion estimation with the Dynamic Pyramid

    • Joachim Dengler
    Pages 289-297

  20. Vectorial Features in Pyramidal Image Processing

    • H.-G. Zimmer
    Pages 299-310
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This book contains the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Maratea (Italy), May 5-9, 1986 on Pyramidal Systems for Image Processing and Computer Vision. We had 40 participants from 11 countries playing an active part in the workshop and all the leaders of groups that have produced a prototype pyramid machine or a design for such a machine were present. Within the wide field of parallel architectures for image processing a new area was recently born and is growing healthily: the area of pyramidally structured multiprocessing systems. Essentially, the processors are arranged in planes (from a base to an apex) each one of which is generally a reduced (usually by a power of two) version of the plane underneath: these processors are horizontally interconnected (within a plane) and vertically connected with "fathers" (on top planes) and "children" on the plane below. This arrangement has a number of interesting features, all of which were amply discussed in our Workshop including the cellular array and hypercube versions of pyramids. A number of projects (in different parts of the world) are reported as well as some interesting applications in computer vision, tactile systems and numerical calculations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Istituto di Informatica e Sistematica, Pavia University, Pavia, Italy

    Virginio Cantoni

  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Rome University, Rome, Italy

    Stefano Levialdi

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