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Prototyping a parallel vision system in Standard ML

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Greg Michaelson  and
Norman Scaife
Greg Michaelson
Affiliation:
Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH 14 4AS. (e-mail: greg@cee.hw.ac.uk, norman@cee.hw.ac.uk)
Norman Scaife
Affiliation:
Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH 14 4AS. (e-mail: greg@cee.hw.ac.uk, norman@cee.hw.ac.uk)
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The construction of a parallel vision system from Standard ML prototypes is presented. The system recognises 3D objects from 2D scenes through edge detection, grouping of edges into straight lines and line junction based model matching. Functional prototyping for parallelism is illustrated through the development of the straight line detection component. The assemblage of the whole system from prototyped components is then considered and its performance discussed.

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Research Article
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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 345 - 382
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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