rapaport@ellie.UUCP (William J. Rapaport) (02/24/86)
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF
COMPUTER SCIENCE
COLLOQUIUM
STEVEN L. TANIMOTO
Department of Computer Science
University of Washington
ICONIC/SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION
WITH PARALLEL IMAGE PROCESSORS
Existing architectures for image processing handle image-
based (iconic) transformations efficiently but are rela-
tively inefficient for transforming images into more sym-
bolic representations such as contour-description strings,
lists of prominent lines, or graphs that express the major
spatial relationships in the image. Consequently some new
architectures have been proposed to improve such operations;
several of these architectures are described, as are several
issues relevant to the design of these systems. The archi-
tectures fall into two classes: those designed to
accelerate the computation of specific transformations and
those that raise the bandwidth of the interface between the
iconic and and symbolic processing components of the system.
The PIPE (TM) system under study at the National Bureau of
Standards and the pyramid machine under development at the
University of Washington are discussed as environments for
iconic/symbolic computing.
Thursday, February 27, 1986
3:30 P.M.
Bell 338, Amherst Campus
There will be a reception at 4:30 P.M., 224 Bell Hall
For further information, call (716) 636-3181.
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William J. Rapaport
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
(716) 636-3193, 3180
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