A system design/scheduling strategy for parallel image processing

Constructing generic data-farm templates

“…The same buffering module is employed between pipeline stages but more slots than needed for local buffers are normally necessary to smooth flow between the stages. A similar buffered pipeline design methodology has already been developed in [35]. A method of predicting the number of buffer slots for local-and inter-stage buffering is discussed in [6].…”

Global Optimization for Mapping Parallel Image Processing Tasks on Distributed Memory Machines

“…Several researchers presented preliminary designs of schedulers for parallel CVIP operations. For example, Lee and Aggarwal [18] discussed static and dynamic design/scheduling strategies for image processing operations comprising a linear sequence of tasks. Although this research provides a useful design framework for parallel image processing, it is not applicable to message-passing architectures and does not consider the communication overheads for redistributing image data.…”

Real-Time Automatic Visual Inspection of High-Speed Plane Products by Means of Parallelism

“…One of the mechanisms used mostly for the parallelization of machine vision tasks is the decomposition of these tasks into a serial of subtasks (pipeline). The model consists of several stages of pipeline (temporal parallelism) that may use several processors at each stage (spatial parallelism) [14]. This pipeline can be multiple.…”

“…The following parallel processing model is adopted to formulate the vision processing tasks of AVI systems [14]:…”