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The development of image processing systems from sequential machines started by changing their periphery to acquire and display pictures; later multiprocessor systems where introduced which could operate in SIMD/MIMD mode and, consequently, an evolution in the programming languages to be used was mandatory. On the other hand many other application areas have found the need to improve both the human-machine communication and the cost-effectiveness of the programming effort. New ideas coming from human perception and the proposals of new programming paradigms have also modified the high level languages commonly employed on computers so as to blurr the separation between a compiler, an editor, an interface, an environment. These new approaches will also have an impact in the future languages that will be used for programming non-Von computers for vision such as the pyramid systems discussed in this Workshop.
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Levialdi, S. (1986). Programming Image Processing Machines. In: Cantoni, V., Levialdi, S. (eds) Pyramidal Systems for Computer Vision. NATO ASI Series, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82940-6_20
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