lowe@kirin.cs.ubc.ca (David Lowe) (09/22/89)
I am looking for information from anyone who has experience interfacing a transputer network to some type of image digitizer for near real-time computation. The problem, of course, is that your average TV camera outputs data at the rate of about 8 megabytes/sec when digitized. Here at the Laboratory for Computational Vision, we already have Datacube image processing equipment that can digitize and do local processing on this data at video rates. However, for higher-level processing the data must be transferred over a VME bus at far slower rates. Has anyone looked at parallel input to transputers from a MAXBUS or other video data source? Are there general high-speed IO solutions for transputers? Any information appreciated. -- David Lowe (lowe@vision.cs.ubc.ca or lowe%ubc@relay.cs.net) Laboratory for Computational Vision Computer Science Dept. University of British Columbia Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1W5
lindsay@watnext.waterloo.edu (09/25/89)
From: Lindsay Patten <lindsay@watnext>
In the PAMI group here at the U of Waterloo we are currently building
a video digitizer/transputer interface. The basic design is based on
digitizer output going to a bus. Each of several transputers have a
frame buffer which they can use to grab images from the bus. This
allows each tranputer to grab the same or different images and has no
intrinsic scaling limit. We are still in the testing stage.
Cheers,
Lindsay
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Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence Group lindsay@watnext
Department of Systems Design Engineering lindsay@watnext.waterloo.edu
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