“…Firstly it provides the capability within a single design for efficiently implementing a wide range of filter types and secondly it offers a further cost reduction via resource sharing for implementing those image-processing applications which require multiple types of filters sequentially for performing diversified image processing tasks. The diversified filter requirement for different applications ranges from biomedical [4, 5, 22, 23], computer vision [6, 24], surveillance and navigation [7, 25], industrial [26, 27] to geophysics [8] etc. In contrast to our proposed versatile framework, the previously reported structurally optimized designs such as [18] and [19] does not offer further cost reduction for such applications.…”