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With the recent developments in digital media computers are used increasingly in TV production. Computer generated logos, animated objects and characters, and video wizardry generated with complex image processing operations are now part of programs we see daily on our television screens. A large proportion of the techniques employed for this purpose, for example, computer graphics techniques to achieve photo-realism, like ray tracing [1] and radiosity [2], and image transformation applications such as non-linear mapping [3] are computationally expensive and they require high performance computation engines. Multiprocessors provide a possible solution to this problem. Hardware platforms built using high-performance processors such as MIPS R4400, Intel i860, Transputers, and DSPs are already being used for this purpose [4,5].
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Sahiner, A.V., Lefloch, P., Paker, Y. (1995). A Parallel Accelerator for Using Synthetic Images in TV and Video Production. In: Paker, Y., Wilbur, S. (eds) Image Processing for Broadcast and Video Production. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3035-2_2
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