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Selective Change-Driven Image Processing: A Speeding-Up Strategy

Jose Antonio BoludaFernando PardoPedro ZuccarelloFrancisco Vegara

subject

Pixelbusiness.industryComputer scienceFrame (networking)Digital image processingComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISIONOptical flowMotion detectionComputer visionImage processingAbsolute valueArtificial intelligencebusiness

description

Biologically inspired schemes are a source for the improvement of visual systems. Real-time implementation of image processing algorithms is constrained by the large amount of data to be processed. Full image processing is many times unnecessary since there are many pixels that suffer a small change or not suffer any change at all. A strategy based on delivering and processing pixels, instead of processing the complete frame, is presented. The pixels that have suffered higher changes in each frame, ordered by the absolute value of its change, are read-out and processed. Two examples are shown: a morphological motion detection algorithm and the Horn and Schunck optical flow algorithm. Results show that the implementation of this strategy achieves execution time speed-up while keeping results comparable to original approaches.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2009-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10268-4_4