Parallel Computer Vision

Jon A. Webb

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Current Work

3. Future Work


1. Introduction

This project applies advanced, low-latency supercomputers to problems in computer vision. Click here for a photographic guide to the people in the lab (with huge images; not for the bandwidth-limited.)

Early work led to the use of the Carnegie Mellon Warp machine in the Navlab robot vehicle. A Warp machine was mounted in Navlab and used for various tasks, including road following using color-based image segmentation, and also using the ALVINN neural-network system.

The ALVINN work was particularly successful, because an important factor in developing the road following neural network was the availability of Warp to perform back propagation on large neural networks.

More recent work has been centered around the iWarp computer developed jointly with Intel Corporation. An FTP directory of iWarp papers and iWarp home page are available.

2. Current Work