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Pixelsat Scale: High-Performance Computer Graphics and Vision - David Luebke and John Owens
Pages 3-6

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... Modern consumer hardware has made ubiquitous • powerful computer graphics hardware, continuously increasing the per formance and quality of graphics; • high-resolution displays, approaching the native resolution of the eye; and • high-resolution low-cost digital cameras, generating trillions of digital photos for analysis and training. These advances provide traction on two long-standing challenges that center on the pixel: interactive, immersive, photorealistic computer graphics and ubiquitous, robust image analysis and understanding.
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... Thus today's GPUs not only render video games but also accelerate computation for astrophysics, video transcoding, image processing, protein folding, seismic exploration, computational finance, heart surgery, self-driving cars -- the list goes on and on. Importantly, machine learning algorithms (particularly convolutional neural nets or "deep learning")
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... The session concluded with Kayvon Fatahalian, an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University whose research couples a systems mindset with deep expertise in pixel-processing hardware and software. He discussed the challenges and opportunities of processing live pixel streams on vast scales, with applications ranging from personal to urban to societal.
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