CSE 581: Parallel Computation in Image Processing
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Schedule Information
On October 31, November 7, and 9, class will begin a half-hour
earlier than normal. I.e., we will start at 8:30 on these days.
On November 1, we will meet at 9:00 and have a guest speaker,
Prof. Ze-Nian Li of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., Canada.
Tuesday, November 14: no class.
November 16 at 9:00. Dr. Bharath Modayur will be our guest speaker,
and the title of his presentation is,
"Efficient parallel object recognition on SIMD and MIMD machines".
Tuesday, November 21. Class will begin at 8:30 AM.
Topics: Completion of discussion of pyramid algorithms -- scale-invariant
operators, top-down algorithms, and segmentation through hierarchical
relaxation (using the ISODATA approach of Burt, Hong and Rosenfeld).
Introduction to embedding and virtual processing.
Overview of neural network architectures.
algorithms,
Tuesday, November 28. Class will begin at 8:30 AM.
Topics: Completion of overview of neural network architectures.
Embedding of neural networks in meshes and pyramids.
Brief treatment of iconic/symbolic computation.
Thursday, November 30. Class will begin at 8:30 AM.
Topic: Parallel image analysis for digital libraries.
Here is the
demo schedule.
Finding term project topics
During the week of October 12-18 students should be actively
exploring one or more topics for the term project.
Written descriptions of topics should be handed in
on Tuesday, October 24. A template for the writeups
is available
here.
Resources
PVM (Parallel Virtual
Machine) is a software layear that permits a user program to run on a
virual machine made up of a heterogeneous collection of one or more
workstations. This is a convenient way to implement and study
distributed algorithms.
Intel SSD Technical
Publications include documentation for the Intel Paragon
parallel computer system.
The
ZPL language is a good language in which to implement
2-D array-oriented algorithms on the Intel Paragon.
Various
vendors of supercomputers and parallel machines.
Some info on
the MasPar, from the National Supercomputer Center in Sweden.
Some online information for the MasPar MP-2 is at the
University of Tennessee.
This resource was found by Neal Friedman. He reports that
"they've also got some Paragon documents."
Here are some errors in and corrections
to the course notes.
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than the one at the University of Washington.
Term projects are an important part of
the course. These should be started during the week of October 16.
The review session for the final is schedule for Friday, December 1,
4:30-6:00 in 422 Sieg Hall.
The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, December 13 from 10:30 to 12:20
in our normal class meeting room. The exam is closed-book.
Term projects are due at or before 4:30 PM, Thursday, December 14.
(Last Update: 10 October 1995)