Massively parallel approach to pattern recognition
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-1990
Abstract
Template matching is concerned with measuring the similarity between patterns of two objects. A massively parallel approach to pattern recognition with a large template set is proposed. A class of image recognition problems inherently needs large template sets, for example, the recognition of Chinese characters, which needs thousands of templates. The proposed algorithm is based on the SIMD-SM-R machine or the SIMD machine with broadcasting abilities, which is the most popular parallel machine to date, and uses a multiresolution method to search for the matching template. The approach uses the pyramid data structure for the multiresolution representation of templates and the input image pattern. For a given image it scans the template pyramid searching for the match. Implementation of the proposed scheme is described.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Conference Proceedings - Annual Phoenix Conference
First Page
61
Last Page
67
Recommended Citation
Wang, W., Iyengar, S., & Chen, J. (1990). Massively parallel approach to pattern recognition. Conference Proceedings - Annual Phoenix Conference, 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1109/pccc.1990.101601