Many image processing operations manipulate an individual pixel using the values of other pixels in the neighborhood. Such operations are called windowed operations. The size of the windowed operation is a measure of the size of the given pixel's neighborhood. A windowed computation applies a windowed operation on all pixels of the image. An image processing application is typically a sequence of windowed computations. While windowed computations admit high parallelism, the cost of inputting and outputting the image often restricts the computation to a few computational units.In this paper we analytically study the running of a sequence of z windowed computations, each of size w, on a z-stage pipelined computational model. For an N × N image and n × n input/output bandwidth per stage, we show that the sequence of windowed computations can be run in at most over a single stage; δ, the overhead is quite small. We also show that the memory requirement per stage is O(wN + n 2 ). With values of N , n and w that reflect the current stateof-the-art, over 20 pipeline stages can be sustained with less than 5% overhead for a 10M-pixel image. Each of these stages would require less than 128 Kbytes of storage.
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