Gregory Diamos, the guy behind Ocelot, puts the review of their PACT 2010 paper online. Comments from reviewers of top conference are as interesting to read as the paper itself.

Model Based Motion Vector Predictor for Zoom Motion, in LSP 2010.

Two papers using Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF) for the stability analysis of neural network in TNN July 2010:

• An Augmented LKF Approach Involving Derivative Information of Both State and Delay
• Exponential Stabilization of Neural Networks With Various Activation Functions and Mixed Time-Varying Delays

TPAMI Sept 2010 has some interesting papers:

• Evaluating Color Descriptors for Object and Scene Recognition, from UvA
• Stages as Models of Scene Geometry
• WLD: A Robust Local Image Descriptor
• Resolution Enhancement in Multi-Image Stereo

Some interesting papers from IET-CTA July 2010:

• New study of controller design for networked control systems
• Delay-dependent robust H∞ control of time-delay systems
• Sampled-data fuzzy-model-based control systems: stability analysis with consideration of analogue-to-digital converter and digital-to-analogue converter
• Network-based predictive control of multirate systems

MCS Aug 2010 has a special issue on Automotive Active Safety Systems:

• Automotive Active Safety Systems [Introduction to the special section]
• Cooperative Vehicular Safety Applications
• Tire-Road Friction-Coefficient Estimation
• Vehicle Rollover Avoidance
• Active Driveline Torque-Management Systems, an awesome overview on ESC systems.

Networked Control Systems With Communication Constraints: Tradeoffs Between Transmission Intervals, Delays and Performance, from TU/e, in TAC Aug 2010. A good example of analysing the trade-offs.

TASE July 2010 has some interesting papers:

• Automated 3-D Micrograsping Tasks Performed by Vision-Based Control
• A Dynamic Region-of-Interest Vision Tracking System Applied to the Real-Time Wing Kinematic Analysis of Tethered Drosophila

A Heterogeneous Digital Signal Processor for Dynamically Reconfigurable Computing, from the MORPHEUS project, in JSSC Aug 2010. The multi-grain reconfigurable Morpheus chip is presented.

TIP Aug 2010 has some interesting papers:

• Local Affine Image Matching and Synthesis Based on Structural Patterns
• Fast Cartoon + Texture Image Filters
• General Road Detection From a Single Image
• Exploiting Transitivity of Correlation for Fast Template Matching
• Software Designs of Image Processing Tasks With Incremental Refinement of Computation, handling dynamic workload in real time system.
• Detecting Abandoned Objects With a Moving Camera

TCSVT July 2010 has some interesting papers:

• Fast Motion Estimation With Interpolation-Free Sub-Sample Accuracy
• Human Pose Regression Through Multiview Visual Fusion
• Content-Based Dynamic Threshold Method for Real-Time Keyframe Selecting
• Video Denoising Based on a Spatiotemporal Gaussian Scale Mixture Model

TCSI July 2010 has some interesting papers:

• An On-Chip-Trainable Gaussian-Kernel Analog Support Vector Machine
• Incremental Data Converters at Low Oversampling Ratios
• On-Chip Support for NoC-Based SoC Debugging

FPGA Architecture Optimization Using Geometric Programming, in TCAD 2010. Area and delay model at circuit level and architecture level.

Some interesting papers in TC Sept 2010:

• High Throughput Disk Scheduling with Fair Bandwidth Distribution
• Network Applications on Simultaneous Multithreading Processors
• Time-Predictable Out-of-Order Execution for Hard Real-Time Systems
• Generating Reliable Code from Hybrid-Systems Models

Some interesting paper in MCSE July-Aug 2010:

• High-Performance Computing with Accelerators, by Wen-mei Hwu, et al.
• OpenMM: A Hardware-Independent Framework for Molecular Simulations, “users care about equations, not algorithms”, great insight into domain specific framework.
• Efficient Computational Strategies for Solving Global Optimization Problems, the available parallelism in different heuristic search algorithms are compared.
• XtremeData dbX: An FPGA-Based Data Warehouse Appliance

TCE July 2010 has some interesting papers:

• Smart cameras: 2D affine models for determining subject facial expressions, component-based Active Appearance Model (AAM) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier are used.
• Fast panorama stitching for high-quality panoramic images on mobile phones, from NOKIA. Some while ago Lowe did autostitching on iphone.
• Design of signal processing pipeline for stereoscopic cameras, unlikely to achieve real time performance.
• CFA-based motion blur removal using long/short exposure pairs, can be done in real time.
• 3D video: acquisition, coding, and display, from the FP7 3Dphone project.

Light field display from Holografika and Graphics Lab of USC.

Proceeding of IEEE Aug 2010 has a special issue on internet vision:

• Internet Vision
• Scene Reconstruction and Visualization From Community Photo Collections
• Infinite Images: Creating and Exploring a Large Photorealistic Virtual Space
• Toward Large-Scale Face Recognition Using Social Network Context
• It’s All About the Data
• Learning Object Categories From Internet Image Searches
• Vision of a Visipedia

MCG July-Aug 2010 has a special issue on digital human faces:

• Guest Editors’ Introduction: Digital Human Faces: From Creation to Emotion
• The Digital Emily Project: Achieving a Photorealistic Digital Actor
• Modeling Short-Term Dynamics and Variability for Realistic Interactive Facial Animation
• The Expressive Gaze Model: Using Gaze to Express Emotion
• Solid-Texture Synthesis: A Survey

Some interesting papers in TVLSI Aug 2010:

• A High-Performance Unified-Field Reconfigurable Cryptographic Processor, the road towards unification for cryptographic processor.
• A Scalable Circuit-Architecture Co-Design to Improve Memory Yield for High-Performance Processors, by increasing the write cycle by one, the yield increases from 37% to 69%.
• On the Power Management of Simultaneous Multithreading Processors, SMTSIM is used.
• Register File Partitioning and Compiler Support for Reducing Embedded Processor Power Consumption, simplescalar is used. About 50% reduction in power is reported.

Some attempts to target heterogeneous platforms, including CPU, GPU and FPGA:

• OpenCL for reconfigurable computing units (FPGAs)
• OpenCPI, Componenet Portable Infrastructure. Source code is available.

Far infrared pedestrian detection and tracking for night driving, in Robotica 2010. Infrared camera is used. The unscented Kalman filter is used for tracking the pedestrians.

SPITS, strategic platform for intelligent traffic system (ITS).

Gazebo, 3D multiple robot simulator with dynamics.

NVIDIA@SIGGRAPH’2010.

The proceeding of DAC 2010 is available. Exciting moment.

FIT: Fun Ideas and Thoughts 2010, held in PLDI 2010.

Some interesting articles in CACM August 2010:

• Memory models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware, future classic article.
• An interview with Edsger W. Dijkstra, an old interview.
• Looking beyond stereoscopic 3D’s revival, a nice overview.
• Seven principles for selecting software packages, advice for any project with software involved.
• Presenting your project, it reminds me my last presentation, which failed hopelessly.

This statistics shows GPU is by far the dominating architecture for rendering.

Memory models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware, in CACM August 2010. An insightful article on memory model and programming model. It echoes the panel discussion paper in Micro July 2010: “Programming Multicores: Do Applications Programmers Need to Write Explicitly Parallel Programs?“.

PTM and BSIM, for device modeling.

Roadmap for 22 nm and beyond, in jmee 2009.

Massively parallel acceleration of a document-similarity classifier to detect web attacks, from Lawrence and Sandia, in jpdc 2010. Tilera and Virtex5 are the targeted platforms.

The Geometry Engine:

• Special Feature A VLSI Geometry Processor For Graphics, in Computer 1980.
• The Geometry Engine: A VLSI Geometry System for Graphics, in SIGGRAPH 1982.

The daddy of GPU. The starting point of SGI‘s graphics empire.

Performance characterization and optimization of mobile augmented reality on handheld platforms, from Intel, in IISWC 2009. The AR pipeline is using SURF as front end. The data level parallelism is not analysed. The graphics workload is not characterised. A lot to do.

Parallelization and characterization of SIFT on multi-core systems, also from Intel, in IISWC 2008, with more thorough characterisations.

Implementations of Baseband Functions for Digital Receivers, PhD thesis of Perttu Salmela in TUT. It has some energy figures of TTA archtiecture.

The Frankencamera paper to appear in SIGGRAPH 2010. It is part of the camera 2.0 project in Stanford graphics lab.

ASAP 2010 has some interesting papers. They are examples of how to do things properly.

SHOT: Unique Signatures of Histograms for Local Surface Description, an interesting works presented in ECCV 2010.