Parallel Vision Algorithms

Abstract

The objective of this project is to develop and implement, on highly parallel computers, vision algorithms that combine stereo, texture, and multi- resolution techniques for determining local surface orientation and depth. Such algorithms will immediately serve as front-ends for autonomous land vehicle navigation systems. During the first year of the project, efforts have concentrated on two fronts. First, developing and testing the parallel programming environment that will be used to develop, implement and test our parallel vision algorithms. Second, developing and testing multi-resolution stereo, and texture algorithms. This report describes the status and progress on these two fronts. We describe first the programming environment developed, and mapping scheme that allows efficient use of the connection machine for pyramid (multi-resolution) algorithms. Second, we present algorithms and test results for multi-resolution stereo, and texture algorithms. Also the initial results of the starting efforts of integrating stereo and texture algorithms are presented. Keywords: Computer vision, Artificial intelligence, Image understanding, Multi- resolution, Stereo, Texture, Strategy computing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA208271

Entities

People

  • Hussein A. Ibrahim
  • John R. Kender
  • Lisa G. Brown

Organizations

  • Columbia University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Change Detection
  • Classification
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Image Processing
  • Navigation
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Simulators
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML