ECVASS: Publications

Publications by Year

2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995

2007

B. Valentine, S. Apewokin, L. M. Wills, S. Wills and A. Gentile, Midground Object Detection in Real World Video Scenes, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS), London, England, September 2007.
S. Apewokin, B. Valentine, S. Wills, L. M. Wills and A. Gentile, Multimodal Mean Adaptive Backgrounding for Embedded Real-Time Video Surveillance, Proceedings of the Embedded Computer Vision Workshop (ECVW07), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2007.

2006

H. Kim, S. Wills and L. M. Wills, Optimizing Operand Transport using Dynamic SIMDization in Multimedia Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 372-377, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, October 2006.
T. C. Huang, L. M. Wills, R. Melton and C. Alford, Predicting Communication Protocol Performance on Superscalar Architectures using Instruction Dependency, Performance Evaluation, Vol. 63, No. 9-10, pp. 939-955, October 2006.
L. Baumstark and L. M. Wills, Multidimensional Dataflow-based Parallelization for Multimedia Instruction Set Extensions, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Embedded Computing, Columbus, Ohio, held in conjunction with the 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-06), August 2006.
S. Sander and L. M. Wills, Retargeting Image-Processing Algorithms to Varying Processor Grain Sizes, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Embedded Computing, Columbus, Ohio, held in conjunction with the 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-06), August 2006.

2005

J. M. Kim, S. Wills and L. M. Wills, Implementing and Evaluating a Color-Aware Instruction Set for Low-Memory, Embedded Video Processing in Data Parallel Architectures, Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3824, Springer-Verlag, pp. 4 - 16, Nagasaki, Japan, Best Paper Award, December 2005.
H. Kim, S. Wills and L. M. Wills, Reducing Operand Communication Overhead using Instruction Clustering for Multimedia Applications, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2005), pp. 345-352, Irvine, California, December 2005.
L. Baumstark and L. M. Wills, Dynamic Estimation of Data-Level Parallelism in Nested Loop Structures, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2005), pp. 28-32, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, co-located with the 12th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, November 2005.
J. M. Kim, S. Wills and L. M. Wills, Architectural Enhancements for Color Image and Video Processing on Embedded Systems, Proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Conference: Advances in Computer Systems Architecture (ACSAC 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3740, Springer-Verlag, pp. 104 - 117, Singapore, October 2005.
J. M. Kim, S. Wills and L. M. Wills, Determining Optimal Grain Size for Efficient Vector Processing on SIMD Image Processing Architectures, Proceedings of the 10th Asia-Pacific Conference: Advances in Computer Systems Architecture (ACSAC 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3740, Springer-Verlag, pp. 551 - 565, Singapore, October 2005.
W. H. Robinson and D. S. Wills, Efficiency Analysis for a Mixed-Signal Focal Plane Processing Architecture, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Special Issue on System-on-a-Chip for Multimedia Systems, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 65-80, August 2005.
P. Sassone, S. Wills and G. Loh, Static Strands: Safely Collapsing Dependence Chains for Increasing Embedded Power Efficiency, Proceedings of the Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), pp. 127-136, Chicago, Illinois, selected as one of five best papers, June 2005.
H. Kim, D. S. Wills and L. M. Wills, Technology-based Architectural Analysis of Operand Bypass Networks for Efficient Operand Transport, Proceedings of the 4^th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems (PMEO-PDS'05) , pp. 273b:1-8, Denver, Colorado, held in conjunction with the 19^th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05), April 2005.
J. M. Kim, L. M. Wills and D. S. Wills, Effective Detection and Elimination of Impulse Noise for Reliable 4:2:0 YCbCr Signals Prior to Compression Encoding, Proceedings of the 30^th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP '05), Vol. 2, pp. 1005-1008, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2005.
L. Baumstark and L. M. Wills, Retargeting Sequential Image-Processing Programs for Data Parallel Execution, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 116-136, February 2005.
J. M. Kim and D. S. Wills, Evaluating a 16-bit YCbCr (6:5:5) Color Representation for Low Memory, Embedded Video Processing, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE '05), pp. 181-182, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2005.

2004

P. G. Sassone and D. S. Wills, Dynamic Strands: Collapsing Speculative Dependence Chains for Reducing Pipeline Communication, Proceedings of the 37th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, pp. 7-17, Portland, Oregon, December 2004.
A. Gentile, S. Sander, L. M. Wills and D. S. Wills, Impact of Pixel to Processor Ratio in Embedded SIMD Image Processing Architectures, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 64, No. 11, pp. 1318-1327, November 2004.
P. G. Sassone and D. S. Wills, On the Extraction and Analysis of Prevalent Dataflow Patterns, The IEEE 7th Annual Workshop on Workload Characterization (WWC-7), 8 pages, Austin, Texas, October 2004.
J. M. Kim and D. S. Wills, Efficient Processing of Color Image Sequences using a Color-Aware Instruction Set on Mobile Systems, Proceedings of the 15^th IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2004), pp. 137-149, Galveston, Texas, September 2004.
A. Gentile and D. S. Wills, Portable Video Supercomputing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 960-973, August 2004.
H. Kim, D. S. Wills and L. M. Wills, Empirical Analysis of Operand Usage and Transport in Multimedia Applications, Proceedings of the 4^th IEEE International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-Time Applications(IWSOC’04), pp. 168-171, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2004.
P. G. Sassone and D. S. Wills, Multicycle Broadcast Bypass: Too Readily Overlooked, Proceedings of the Workshop on Complexity Effective Design (WCED), 5 pages, Munich, Germany, June 2004.
J. M. Kim and D. S. Wills, Combining the Quantized Color Instruction Set and Loop Unrolling on Portable Video Processing Systems, Proceedings of 16^th SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, Embedded Processors for Multimedia and Communications, Vol. 5309, pp. 80-91, San Jose, California, January 2004.

2003

L. Baumstark, M. Guler and L. M. Wills, Extracting an Explicitly Data-Parallel Representation of Image-Processing Programs, Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 24-34, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, November 2003.
S. Bunchua, D. S. Wills and L. M. Wills, Reducing Operand Transport Complexity of Superscalar Processors using Distributed Register Files, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 532-535, San Jose, California, October 2003.
J. M. Kim and D. S. Wills, High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Subword Parallel Instructions, Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS03), pp. 75-80, Seoul, Korea, August 2003.
J. M. Kim and D. S. Wills, Quantized Color Instruction Set for Media-On-Demand Applications, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME’03), pp. 141-144, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2003.
J. M. Kim and D. S. Wills, Evaluating Color Instruction Set Extension for Real-Time Vector Quantization, Proceedings of the IEEE CAMP 2003 International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception, pp. 113-120, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2003.
J. M. Kim and D. S. Wills, Fast Color Image Processing Using Quantized Color Instruction Set, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2003), pp. 529-535, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2003.
W. H. Robinson and D. S. Wills, Analysis of Area-time Efficiency for an Integrated Focal Plane Architecture, Proceedings for the 15^th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, Image and Video Communications and Processing 2003, Vol. 5022, SPIE and IS&T, pp. 272-283, Santa Clara, California, January 2003.

2002

W. H. Robinson, G. E. Triplett and D. S. Wills, Component Modeling for an Integrated Digital Pixel, Proceedings for the 15^th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Display and Imaging Systems, pp. 37-38, Glasgow, Scotland, November 2002.
L. M. Wills, T. Taha, L. Baumstark and S. Wills, Estimating Potential Parallelism for Platform Retargeting, Proceedings of the 9^th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 55-64, Richmond, Virginia, October 2002.
L. Baumstark and L. M. Wills, Exposing Data-Level Parallelism in Sequential Image Processing Algorithms, Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 245-254, Richmond, Virginia, October 2002.
J. M. Kim and D. S. Wills, Fast Vector Median Filter Implementation Using the Color Pack Instruction Set, Proceedings of the 10^th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, pp. 339-343, Pine Mountain, Georgia, October 2002.
R. Janka, L. M. Wills and L. Baumstark, Virtual Benchmarking and Model Continuity in Prototyping Embedded Multiprocessor Signal Processing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 9, pp. 832-846, September 2002.
W. H. Robinson and D. S. Wills, Design of an Integrated Focal Plane Architecture for Efficient Image Processing, Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS2002), pp. 128-135, Louisville, Kentucky, September 2002.
J. M. Kim, S. Ryu, A. Gentile, L. M. Wills and D. S. Wills, Impulse Noise Removal on an Embedded, Low Memory SIMD Processor, Proceedings of the 14^th IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP2002), pp. 1257-1260, Santorini, Greece, July 2002.
A. Gentile, D. S. Wills, J. L. Cruz-Rivera and F. Sorbello, Real-Time, Low Level Image Processing on SIMPil - an Embedded SIMD Architecture, AIIA Notizie, Proceedings of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 40-43, Bari, Italy, also appeared in Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2001), February 2002.

2001

A. Gentile and D. S. Wills, Impact of Pixel per Processor Ratio on Embedded SIMD Architectures, Proceedings of the 11^th IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP2001), pp. 204-208, Palermo, Italy, September 2001.
A. Gentile, D. S. Wills and F. Sorbello, A Novel Methodology for the Design of Processing Elements in Embedded SIMD Architectures for Multimedia, Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA2001), pp. 437-443, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2001.
W. H. Robinson and D. S. Wills, Cost Modeling for Early Image Processing Applications, Proceedings of the 2^nd Annual International Workshop for Digital and Computational Video, DTV, and HDTV Technology, pp. 29-34, Tampa, Florida, February 2001.

2000

R. Janka and L. M. Wills, Specification and Synthesis of Real-Time Embedded Distributed and Parallel Multiprocessor-based Signal Processing Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES-2000), pp. 72-80, San Jose, California, November 2000.
R. Janka and L. M. Wills, Combining Virtual Benchmarking with Rapid System Prototyping for Real-Time Embedded Multiprocessor Signal Processing System Codesign, Proceedings of the 11^th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP 2000), pp. 20-25, Paris, France, June 2000.
R. Janka and L. M. Wills, A Novel Codesign Methodology for Real-Time Embedded COTS Multiprocessor-Based Signal Processing Systems, Proceedings of the 8^th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-design (CODES 2000), pp. 157-161, Mission Bay, San Diego, California, May 2000.
S. M. Chai, A. Gentile, W. E. Lugo-Beauchamp, J. Fonseca, J. L. Cruz-Rivera and D. S. Wills, Focal Plane Processing Architectures for Real-time Hyperspectral Image Processing, Applied Optics, Special Issue on Optics in Computing, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 835-849, February 2000.

1999

M. Chai, A. Gentile, W. E. Lugo-Beauchamp, J. L. Cruz-Rivera and D. S. Wills, Hyper-spectral Image Processing Applications on the SIMD Pixel Processor for the Digital Battlefield, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum: Methods and Applications, pp. 130-138, Fort Collins, Colorado, June 1999.
A. Gentile, J. L. Cruz-Rivera, D. S. Wills, L. Bustelo, J. J. Figueroa, J. E. Fonseca-Camacho, W. E. Lugo-Beauchamp, R. Olivieri, M. Quiñones-Cerpa, A. H. Rivera-Ríos, I. Vargas-Gonzáles and M. Viera-Vera, Real-Time Image Processing on a Focal Plane SIMD Array, Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, pp. 400-405, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999.
Y. Joo, J. Park, M. Thomas, K. Chung, M. A. Brooke, N. M. Jokerst and D. S. Wills, Smart CMOS Focal Plane Arrays: A Si CMOS Detector Array and Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converter Imaging System, IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Quantum Electronics, Special Issue on Smart Photonic Components, Interconnect, Processing, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 296-305, March 1999.
S. M. Chai, A. Gentile and D. S. Wills, Impact of Power Density Limitation in Gigascale Integration for the SIMD Pixel Processor, Proceedings of the 20^th Anniversary Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI, pp. 57-71, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1999.

1998

W. H. Robinson, D. S. Wills, M. A. Brooke and N. M. Jokerst, IRIS: An Integrated, Scalable Focal Plane Architecture, Proceedings of LEOS'98 11^th Annual Meeting, Optical Image Processing, Memory, 3D Interconnects, pp. 184-185, Orlando, Florida, December 1998.
S. Bond, S. Jung, O. Vendier, M. Brooke, N. M. Jokerst, S. Chai, A. Lopez-Lagunas and D. S. Wills, 3D Stacked Si CMOS VLSI Smart Pixels Using Through-Si Optoelectronic Interconnections, Proceedings of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Summer Topical Meeting on Smart Pixels, pp. 27-28, Monterey, California, July 1998.

1997

D. S. Wills, H. Cat, J. Cruz-Rivera, W. S. Lacy, M. Baker, J. Eble, A. Lopez-Lagunas and M. Hopper, High-Throughput, Low-Memory Applications on the Pica Architecture, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 8, No. 10, pp. 1055-1067, October 1997.
Y. Joo, S. Fike, K. S. Chung, M. A. Brooke, N. M. Jokerst and D. S. Wills, Application of Massively Parallel Processors to Real Time Processing of High Speed Images, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, pp. 96-100, Montreal, Canada, June 1997.
A. Gentile, H. Cat, F. Kossentini, F. Sorbello and D. S. Wills, Real-Time Vector Quantization-Based Image Compression on the SIMPil Low Memory SIMD Architecture, Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing, Communications Conference, pp. 10-16, Phoenix, Arizona, Best Paper Award, February 1997.

1996

H. H. Cat, A. Gentile, J. C. Eble, M. Lee, O. Vendier, Y. J. Joo, D. S. Wills, M. Brooke, N. M. Jokerst, A. S. Brown and R. Leavitt, SIMPil: An OE Integrated SIMD Architecture for Focal Plane Processing Applications, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections, pp. 44-52, Maui, Hawaii, October 1996.
D. S. Wills, Smart Pixel Architectures for Image Processing, Digest of the IEEE/LEOS 1996 Summer Topical Meetings: Smart Pixels, pp. 93-94, August 1996.
D. S. Wills, J. M. Baker, H. H. Cat, S. M. Chai, L. Codrescu, J. Cruz-Rivera, J. Eble, A. Gentile, M. Hopper, W. S. Lacy, A. Lopez-Lagunas, P. May, S. Smith and T. Taha, Processing Architectures for Smart Pixel Systems, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 24-34, April 1996.

1995

J. L. Cruz-Rivera, E. V. R. DiBella, D. S. Wills, T. K. Gaylord and E. N. Glytsis, Parallelized Formulation of the Maximum Likelihood-Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Fine-Grain Message-Passing Architectures, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 758-762, December 1995.
S. Wills, W. S. Lacy, C. Camperi-Ginestet, B. Buchanan H. H. Cat, S. Wilkinson, M. Lee, N. M. Jokerst and M. A. Brooke, A Three Dimensional High-Throughput Architecture Using Through-Wafer Optical Interconnect, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology Special Issue on Optical Interconnections for Information Processing, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 1085-1092, June 1995.