Evaluating stream buffers as a secondary cache replacement
ISCA '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Hitting the memory wall: implications of the obvious
ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
Loop parallelization algorithms: from parallelism extraction to code generation
Parallel Computing - Special issues on languages and compilers for parallel computers
Performance of image and video processing with general-purpose processors and media ISA extensions
ISCA '99 Proceedings of the 26th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Dynamic Access Ordering for Streamed Computations
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Blocking and array contraction across arbitrarily nested loops using affine partitioning
PPoPP '01 Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practices of parallel programming
The Reconfigurable Streaming Vector Processor (RSVPTM)
Proceedings of the 36th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
Streaming I/O for Imaging Applications
CAMP '05 Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception
Streaming Data Movement for Real-Time Image Analysis
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
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The memory subsystem for computer vision and image processing applications must sustain high memory bandwidth to keep processors busy. This paper advocates the use of stream descriptors, a mechanism that allows programmers to indicate data movement explicitly. Stream descriptors enable the compiler to organize memory transfers more efficiently by matching data movement to the capabilities of the underlying hardware. Stream descriptors are used in this paper on an image sensor interface to describe the deterministic movements of objects in segmented image regions. The paper shows how stream descriptors reduce the bandwidth requirements for a set of computer vision applications.