This paper describes the design concept and the implementation of the imaging database Online image Delivery System (OLIDS). We propose a new framework to support vertically parallelimageprocessing in multimedia dat...
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(纸本)0818681489
This paper describes the design concept and the implementation of the imaging database Online image Delivery System (OLIDS). We propose a new framework to support vertically parallelimageprocessing in multimedia database systems. We present a generic and customizable framework for specifying image query execution plan that permits the DBMS to optimize and to execute parallelimageprocessing. Moreover, it is important to provide to the multimedia applications the capability to customize the information server according to their specific requirements. The capability to customize easily in a vertical way the multimedia information server according to new applications' requirements (i.e. new kinds of retrieval methods with uncertainty factor, new kinds of compression algorithms) also provides both challenges and opportunities in building high performance multimedia and image systems. Applications such as (Active hypermedia project) or MODOS (Museum project between LRMF (France), NMWA and NACSIS(Japan)) demonstrate the usefulness of the customizable feature of the Application-Oriented DBMS Phasme, a micro-kernel database system tested and extended inside NACSIS.
Watershed transformation is a tool for image segmentation widely used in computer vision applications. However, the complexity of processing large images entails fast parallel algorithms. In this paper, an improved SP...
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The objective of thinning is to reduce the amount of information in image patterns to the minimum needed for recognition. Thinned image helps the extraction of important features such as end points, junction points, a...
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A computer systems architecture for processing medical images and other data coming over the Web is proposed. The architecture comprises a Java engine for communicating images over the Internet, storing data in local ...
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A computer systems architecture for processing medical images and other data coming over the Web is proposed. The architecture comprises a Java engine for communicating images over the Internet, storing data in local memory, doing floating point calculations, and a coprocessor MIMD parallel DSP for doing fine-grained operations found in video, graphics, and imageprocessing applications. The local memory is shared between the Java engine and the parallel DSP. Data coming from the Web is stored in the local memory. This approach avoids the frequent movement of image data between a host processor's memory and an image processor's memory, found in many imageprocessing systems. A low-power and high performance parallel DSP architecture containing lots of processors interconnected by a segmented hierarchical network has been developed. The instruction set of the 16-bit processor supports video, graphics, and imageprocessing calculations. Two's complement arithmetic, saturation arithmetic, and packed instructions are supported. Higher data precision such as 32-bit and 64-bit can be achieved by cascading processors. A VLSI chip implementation of the architecture containing 64 processors organized in 16 clusters and interconnected by a statically programmable hierarchical bus is in progress. The buses are segmentable by programming switches on the bus. The instruction memory of each processor has sixteen 40-bit words. Data streaming through the processor is manipulated by the instructions. Multiple operations can be performed in a single cycle in a processor. A low-power handshake protocol is used for synchronization between the sender and the receiver of data. Temporary storage for data and filter coefficients is provided in each chip. A 256 by 16 memory unit is included in each of the 16 clusters. The memory unit can be used as a delay line, FIFO, lookup table or random access memory. The architecture is scalable with technology. Portable multimedia terminals like U.C.
This paper gives an overview of developments at Silicon Graphics in the areas of scalable multiprocessing and visualization. These developments are grounded in a scalable, shared memory architecture that allows a high...
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The European Concerted Action "COMPARES" (Concerted Action on COnnectionist methods for Preprocessing and Analysis of REmote Sensing Data) was hmded within the Environment and Climate Programme of the Europe...
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Digital images require a large amount of data to be represented. To make image storage and transmission practical and economical, image compression has become a major issue. In the past few years, several image compre...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780343719
Digital images require a large amount of data to be represented. To make image storage and transmission practical and economical, image compression has become a major issue. In the past few years, several image compression methods using fractal theory have been developed. These methods promise better performances for compression. One of the most efficient approaches is based on iterated function systems (IFS), and has been promoted by Barnsley (1988). The basic idea is that an image can be reconstructed using the self-similarity it contains. A way to speed up the encoding process is to implement parallelprocessing using PVM (parallel virtual machine) software. The system utilizes both static and dynamic load allocations to obtain substantial compression time speedup over the original, sequential encoding implementation. In this paper, considerations such as PSNR, compression ratio, compression time versus number of processors and the workload granularity are also presented.
Many Arabic character recognition systems have been proposed since the early eighties. Most systems reported high recognition rates, however, they overlooked a very important factor in the process; the speed factor. A...
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Many Arabic character recognition systems have been proposed since the early eighties. Most systems reported high recognition rates, however, they overlooked a very important factor in the process; the speed factor. A parallel Arabic character recognition system is introduced. The goal of the system is to achieve both full accuracy and high speed. This has been accomplished by integrating the character recognition process with parallelprocessing and distributed computing concepts. Experimental results showed that the multi-processing environment is very promising in enhancing a sequential Arabic character recognition system performance.
This paper presents an approach to texture segmentation by thresholding based on compactness measures of fuzzy sets to determine thresholds of an ill-defined image. The extension of fuzziness in the texture feature sp...
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(纸本)1864352094
This paper presents an approach to texture segmentation by thresholding based on compactness measures of fuzzy sets to determine thresholds of an ill-defined image. The extension of fuzziness in the texture feature space provides more meaningful results than by considering fuzziness in gray scale domain. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated by comparison with other traditional non-fuzzy methods or the controversial fuzzy method in gray scale alone. In addition, the efficiency of our algorithm is further improved by parallel implementation using distributed shared memory workstations.
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