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From: tpm@inf.rl.ac.uk (Terry Mawby)
Subject: Parallel Architectures for Image Processing
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Department, U.K.
Date: 18 May 1994 13:47:44 -0500
Message-ID: <2rdnsg$qte@sparky.sterling.com>


INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS

Professional Group E4 (Image Processing and Vision) Colloquium:

PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES FOR IMAGE PROCESSING

Thursday 26 May 1994

Savoy Place, London.

Co-sponsored by the British Computer Society Parallel Processing SIG


Programme:

9.30	Registration and Coffee


	Morning session: Systems and Architectures.
	Chairman: T P Mawby (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

10.00 	"A general purpose VSP for image processing, coding and computer vision"
	J Goodenough, J D Morris, R Mencham, N L Seed and P A Ivey
	(University of Sheffield)

10.30 	"Image processing applications using a novel parallel computing machine
	based on reconfigurable logic"
	N M Allinson, N J Howard, A R Kolcz and A M Tyrrell (University of York)

11.00	 "Evaluating ASTRA on image processing applications"
	C D Anyanwu, I P Jalowiecki and A Krikelis (Brunel University)

12.00	"Top-down structured parallelisation of embedded
	image processing applications"
	A C Downton, R W S Tregidgo and A Cuhadar (University of Essex)


12.30	LUNCH + DEMONSTRATIONS. Lunch will be available at Savoy Place


	Afternoon Session: Techniques and Applications
	Chairman: A C Downton (University of Essex)

2.00pm	"Optical computing techniques for parallel image processing"
	J M H Elmirghani (Manchester Metropolitan University)

2.30	"Novel approaches to parallel volume rendering"
	P M Wright and P R Croll (University of Sheffield)
	P Hall (Victoria University, New Zealand)

3.00 	"High performance classification of image data through the parallel
	realisation of pyramidal processing structures"
	M C Fairhurst and K D Cowley (University of Kent)

3.30	TEA and DEMONSTRATIONS

3.50	"Transputers for produce inspection"
	C M Onyango, J A Marchant and R D Tillett (Silsoe Research Institute)

4.20	"Design and application of parallel TMS320-C40
	based image processing system"
	S P Kshirsagar, D M Harvey, D A Bartley and C A Hobson
	(Liverpool John Moores University)

4.50 	Close


Registration:
To register please use the standard IEE Colloquia
Registration Form; these can be obtained from the Colloquium Booking
Office at Savoy Place, tel: 071 240 1871, fax: 071 497 3633.
The events IEE Reference Number is 1994/135

Fees:
IEE Members #42;
Retired, Unemployed or Student Members : No Charge
Non-members #70;
Retired, Unemployed or Student non-members : #21
Buffet Lunch #4.70
These fees include VAT.

