Parallel computing is notoriously challenging, making it difficult to develop efficient and correct programs. With the arrival of multicore processors, desktop environments must be parallelised if they are to benefit from these new processors. However, the parallelisation of desktop environments entails even more challenges than that in a typical parallel program. This report outlines such chal...

To achieve high image quality throughout a digital imaging system, the first requirement is to ensure the quality of the device that captures real-world physical images to digital images, for example a desktop scanner. Several factors have influence on this quality: optical resolution, bit depth, spectral sensitivities, and acquisition noise, to mention a few. In this study we focus on the colo...