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WPM: A multiple-SIMD architecture for image processing

Nudd et al., 1989

Document ID
10587728225145462052
Author
Nudd G
Atherton T
Howarth R
Clippingdale S
Francis N
Kerbyson D
Packwood R
Vaudin G
Walton D
Publication year
Publication venue
Third International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications, 1989.

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The Warwick Pyramid Machine is a large parallel architecture for image processing and computer vision applications. It consists of several distinct processing layers, each well suited to a particular class of operations: a very fine grain array of numeric processing …
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