Image wavelet analysis with the Multimedia Video Processor
Geoffrey W. Brooks · 2002
Images can be decomposed into wavelet components using quadrature mirror filtering (QMF) for significant signal entropy reduction and practically lossless subsequent reconstruction. The Multimedia Video Processor (MVP), a five-processor MIMD chip developed by Texas Instruments (TI), is considered for high speed image QMF. The image convolution operation is an integral part of QMF, as well as the basic computational workhorse for numerous other image processing functions. Computational and memory management techniques specific to image convolutions on this architecture are presented. The performance with these considerations is measured using the TI MVP software simulator.