The deployment of computer vision algorithms in mobile applications is growing at a rapid
pace. A primary component of the computer vision software pipeline is feature extraction …

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) vendors have been scaling single-GPU architectures to
satisfy the ever-increasing user demands for faster graphics processing. However, as it gets …

Running a SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) detector on mobile devices remains too
slow to support emerging applications such as mobile augmented reality. Porting it without …

An example method offiltering in a graphics processing unit (GPU) may include storing, by a
texture engine of the GPU, filter coefficients of a filter as a texture memory object (TMO) in a …

This paper presents a heterogeneous multimedia processor for embedded media
applications such as image processing, vision, 3-D graphics and augmented reality (AR) …

Most data-intensive operations for multimedia applications such as image processing,
vision, and 3D graphics require high external memory bandwidth. In augmented-reality (AR) …

ABSTRACT A texture processing unit includes a controller configured to obtain a texture
coordinate and spatial frequency informa tion for each channel of a texture corresponding to …

Mobile vision is enabling many new applications such as face recognition and augmented
reality. However, the performance of mobile processors is limiting the capability of mobile …

On mobile devices games account for the class of most popular, but as well most power
hungry applications. This thesis targets to reduce the processor's power consumption while …

Local features are widely used in many computer vision tasks such as marker-less
augmented reality (AR), object recognition and tracking, and 3D reconstruction. The …