The program of International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) 2012 was released. Some preprints are already available:

• Automated Regression-based GPU Design Space Exploration (PDF)
• A Mechanistic Performance Model for Superscalar In-Order Processors (PDF)
• Comparing the Power and Performance of Intel SCC to State-of-the-Art CPUs and GPUs (PDF)
• Bandwidth Bandit: Understanding Memory Contention, similar to the tech report “Design and Evaluation of the Bandwidth Bandit“
• Speedup Stacks: Identifying Scaling Bottlenecks in Multi-Threaded Applications (PDF)
• Performance Analysis of Thread Mappings with a Holistic View of the Hardware Resources (PDF)

Some recent comparison of local features:

• SIFT and SURF Performance Evaluation against Various Image Deformations on Benchmark Dataset, in 2011. The paper found that SIFT takes more time to extract features, but less time to match features.
• A Comparison of SIFT and Harris conner features for correspondence points matching, in 2011.

Abstracting Out – Designing Ourselves Out of a Job, an essay by Kevin Morris, in eejournal.com.

Modeling Energy-Time Trade-Offs in VLSI Computation, in Transactions on Computers (TC) April 2012.

Synctium: a Near-Threshold Stream Processor for Energy-Constrained Parallel Applications, in Computer Architecture Letters (L-CA) 2010.

FPGA20: Highlighting Significant Contributions from 20 Years of the International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (1992–2011)

Some interesting preprints of FPGA 2012:

• Octavo: An FPGA-Centric Processor Family, from U. of Toronto.
• Accelerator Compiler for the VENICE Vector Processor, from U. of British Columbia and Google.
• A Lean FPGA Soft Processor Built Using a DSP Block (PDF), from Nanyang Tech. U. and Xilinx.

The papers of International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW) 2011 are available. Thanks to the pointer of Image Sensors World. Some interesting papers:

• The 25th Anniversary of IISW: Reflections on Directions (PDF), by Eric R. Fossum. Great insight! Reflecting on the CCD v.s. CMOS debate, back from 25 year ago, he concludes it as “simpler and cheaper is better than clever and sophisticated“. “That is a hard lesson when your profession is to be clever“, he said. Clever and sophisticated can become simpler and cheaper over time, if the technologies can scale. Some can scale better than the others.
• New Application Areas Made Possible by High Speed Vision (PDF), by Masatoshi Ishikawa from U. Tokyo.
• Experimental Comparison of Four Different CMOS Pixel Architectures Used in Indirect Time-of-Flight Distance Measurement Sensors(PDF)

Recent developments in free-viewpoint interpolation for 3DTV, from the Video Coding and Architectures (VCA) group of TU/e, in 3D Research March 2012.

Trajectory planning for automatic machines and robots, in 2008. Thanks to the pointer from Roel.

Two interesting papers in Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) April 2012:

• Two Efficient Solutions for Visual Odometry Using Directional Correspondence
• Pedestrian Detection: An Evaluation of the State of the Art

Power and Area Minimization of Reconfigurable FFT Processors: A 3GPP-LTE Example, in Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) March 2012.

Analytical Optimization of Bit-Widths in Fixed-Point LTI Systems, in Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) March 2012.

EUV Lithography Gets Some Competition, in IEEE Spectrum. The electron beam (e-beam) direct write lithography is on the rise. According to TSMC, “the window for introducing the [EUV] technology is shrinking”. Once that window is closed, ASML will be doomed.

Digital Video Stabilization and Rolling Shutter Correction using Gyroscopes, by Alexandre Karpenko, et al., in a tech report in Stanford University in 2011. The source code is available on the project page.

Human-Oriented Control for Haptic Teleoperation, from TU Munich, in Proceedings of the IEEE March 2012.

Some interesting papers in Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE) July 2012:

• Analytical and Multiphysics Approach to the Optimal Design of a 10-MW DFIG for Direct-Drive Wind Turbines
• Optimal Tradeoff Between Performance and Security in Networked Control Systems Based on Coevolutionary Algorithms
• Robust Sliding Mode Control for Discrete Stochastic Systems With Mixed Time Delays, Randomly Occurring Uncertainties, and Randomly Occurring Nonlinearities

Some interesting papers from Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) March 2012:

• A Unified Spectral-Domain Approach for Saliency Detection and Its Application to Automatic Object Segmentation
• Discriminative Metric Preservation for Tracking Low-Resolution Targets

Two interesting papers in Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI) March 2012:

• Cogeneration of Fast Motion Estimation Processors and Algorithms for Advanced Video Coding
• Raising FPGA Logic Density Through Synthesis-Inspired Architecture