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With the increasing use of the internet and the ease of exchange of multimedia content, the protection of ownership rights has become a significant concern. Watermarking is an efficient means for this purpose. In many applications,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Mohsen Hajabdolahi , Nader Karimi , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

Emerging analog computing substrates, such as oscillator-based Ising machines, offer rapid convergence times for combinatorial optimization but often suffer from limited scalability due to physical implementation constraints. To tackle…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ruihong Yin , Yue Zheng , Chaohui Li , Ahmet Efe , Abhimanyu Kumar , Ziqing Zeng , Ulya R. Karpuzcu , Sachin S. Sapatnekar , Chris H. Kim

The geometric high-order regularization methods such as mean curvature and Gaussian curvature, have been intensively studied during the last decades due to their abilities in preserving geometric properties including image edges, corners,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Zhenwei Zhang , Ke Chen , Ke Tang , Yuping Duan

In this paper, we present Laplacian multiscale flow matching (LapFlow), a novel framework that enhances flow matching by leveraging multi-scale representations for image generative modeling. Our approach decomposes images into Laplacian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zelin Zhao , Petr Molodyk , Haotian Xue , Yongxin Chen

In this paper, we demonstrate how GPU-accelerated BEM routines can be used in a simple black-box fashion to accelerate fast boundary element formulations based on Hierarchical Matrices (H-Matrices) with ACA (Adaptive Cross Approximation).…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Kerstin Vater , Timo Betcke , Boris Dilba

Domain-specific languages that execute image processing pipelineson GPUs, such as Halide and Forma, operate by 1) dividing the image into overlapped tiles, and 2) fusing loops to improve memory locality. However, current approaches have…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Abhinav Jangda , Arjun Guha

The recent introduction of powerful embedded graphics processing units (GPUs) has allowed for unforeseen improvements in real-time computer vision applications. It has enabled algorithms to run onboard, well above the standard video rates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Balazs Nagy , Philipp Foehn , Davide Scaramuzza

The convex hull is a fundamental geometrical structure for many applications where groups of points must be enclosed or represented by a convex polygon. Although efficient sequential convex hull algorithms exist, and are constantly being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Alan Keith , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro

Feature detection is a common yet time-consuming module in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) implementations, which are increasingly deployed on power-constrained platforms, such as drones. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ruiqi Ye , Mikel Luján

3D reconstruction from videos has become increasingly popular for various applications, including navigation for autonomous driving of robots and drones, augmented reality (AR), and 3D modeling. This task often combines traditional…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Nobuho Hashimoto , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki

Advancements in AI have greatly enhanced the medical imaging process, making it quicker to diagnose patients. However, very few have investigated the optimization of a multi-model system with hardware acceleration. As specialized edge…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Ashiyana Abdul Majeed , Mahmoud Meribout , Safa Mohammed Sali

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can accelerate image processing by exploiting fine-grained parallelism opportunities in image operations. FPGA language designs are often subsets or extensions of existing languages, though these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Robert Stewart , Deepayan Bhowmik , Greg Michaelson , Andrew Wallace

The use of Laplacian eigenfunctions is ubiquitous in a wide range of computer graphics and geometry processing applications. In particular, Laplacian eigenbases allow generalizing the classical Fourier analysis to manifolds. A key drawback…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Simone Melzi , Emanuele Rodolà , Umberto Castellani , Michael M. Bronstein

We present a progressive image decomposition method based on a novel non-linear filter named Sub-window Variance filter. Our method is specifically designed for image detail enhancement purpose; this application requires extraction of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Kin-Ming Wong

High-throughput imaging workflows, such as Parallel Rapid Imaging with Spectroscopic Mapping (PRISM), generate data at rates that exceed conventional real-time processing capabilities. We present a scalable FPGA-based preprocessing pipeline…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Weichien Liao

Efficient and high-fidelity polarization demosaicking is critical for industrial applications of the division of focal plane (DoFP) polarization imaging systems. However, existing methods have an unsatisfactory balance of speed, accuracy,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Guangsen Liu , Peng Rao , Xin Chen , Yao Li , Haixin Jiang

As an important application of spatial databases in pathology imaging analysis, cross-comparing the spatial boundaries of a huge amount of segmented micro-anatomic objects demands extremely data- and compute-intensive operations, requiring…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Kaibo Wang , Yin Huai , Rubao Lee , Fusheng Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Joel H. Saltz

This paper presents a novel technique for progressive online integration of uncalibrated image sequences with substantial geometric and/or photometric discrepancies into a single, geometrically and photometrically consistent image. Our…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Markus Kluge , Tim Weyrich , Andreas Kolb

This research introduces an FPGA-based hardware accelerator to optimize the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Fast Fourier transform (FFT) operations in AI models. The proposed design aims to improve processing speed and reduce…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Hong Ding , Chia Chao Kang , SuYang Xi , Zehang Liu , Xuan Zhang , Yi Ding

Microscopy is an essential tool in imaging research, and the edge-enhanced microscope by using the vortex filter is of particular interest as an optical information processing that highlights amplitude and phase edges of object in all…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-27 Jigme Zangpo , Hirokazu Kobayashi