Cell phone cameras have small apertures, which limits the number of photons they can
gather, leading to noisy images in low light. They also have small sensor pixels, which limits …

Image processing pipelines combine the challenges of stencil computations and stream
programs. They are composed of large graphs of different stencil stages, as well as complex …

We review the impact of deep-learning technologies on camera architecture. The function of
a camera is first to capture visual information and second to form an image. Conventionally …

Conventional pipelines for capturing, displaying, and storing images are usually defined as
a series of cascaded modules, each responsible for addressing a particular problem. While …

The Halide image processing language has proven to be an effective system for authoring
high-performance image processing code. Halide programmers need only provide a high …

This paper presents the design and implementation of PolyMage, a domain-specific
language and compiler for image processing pipelines. An image processing pipeline can …

Using existing programming tools, writing high-performance image processing code
requires sacrificing readability, portability, and modularity. We argue that this is a …

From Snapshots to Social Media describes the history and future of domestic photography
as mediated by technological change. Domestic photography refers to the culture of ordinary …

This paper focuses on the trade-off between flexibility and efficiency in specialized
computing. We observe that specialized units achieve most of their efficiency gains by tuning …

Specialized image signal processors (ISPs) exploit the structure of image processing
pipelines to minimize memory bandwidth using the architectural pattern of line-buffering …