Islamic arts are often identified by their abstract compositions based on geometric principles and spiritual concepts. Using artworks from different eras, this paper highlights the presence of a particular model of thought in Islamic arts in which the hierarchy of perspectival vision is abolished. The main argument is based on the ability of some artworks to be looked at from any angle while ma...

Animate vision systems couple computer vision and robotics to achieve robust and accurate vision, as well as other complex behavior. These systems combine low-level sensory processing and effector output with high-level cognitive planning-all computationally intensive tasks that can benefit from parallel processing. A typical animate vision application will likely consist of many tasks, each of...

Many low level vision tasks that are computationally intensive are easily parallelizable. The lack of parallel processing systems, or their prohibitive costs, have prevented the move of vision processing algorithms from single processor systems to multiprocessor systems. With the recent spurt of parallel processing hardware, there is a need to investigate the feasibility of using such machines ...

ELECT A local binary pattern (LBP)-based tracking algorithm and a novel heterogeneous vision chip architecture that implements the algorithm in high speed are proposed. The algorithm is more robust than previously reported high-speed tracking algorithms. The proposed vision chip architecture adopts multiple levels of parallel processors to execute the algorithm in pixel-parallel and patch-paral...

the advanced technology of computer network has made Vision computing involves the execution of a large number of operations on large sets of structured data. In this paper we demonstrate that such vision tasks can be implemented in parallel on a network of workstation clusters for fast processing. We introduce some techniques used in distributed systems and adopt a divide-and-conquer policy to...