Microprocessor vendors have provided special-purpose instructions such as psadbw and pdist to accelerate the sumof-absolute differences (SAD) similarity measurement. The usefulne...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...
Hardware compilation techniques which use highlevel programming languages to describe and synthesize hardware are gaining popularity. They are especially useful for reconfigurable...
Recent advances in healthcare and bioscience technologies and proliferation of portable medical devices are producing massive amounts of multimodal data. The need for parallel pro...
When an image is viewed at varying resolutions, it is known to create discrete perceptual jumps or transitions amid the continuous intensity changes. In this paper, we study a per...
If-conversion is a compiler technique that reduces the misprediction penalties caused by hard-to-predict branches, transforming control dependencies into data dependencies. Althou...