Parallelization of Video Processing: from Programming Models to Applications

The explosive growth of digital video content from commodity devices and on the Internet has precipitated a renewed interest in video processing technology, which broadly encompasses the compression, enhancement, analysis, and synthesis of digital video. Video processing is computationally intensive and often has accompanying real-time or super-real-time requirements. For example, surveillance and monitoring systems need to robustly analyze video from multiple cameras in real time in order to automatically detect and signal unusual events. Beyond today’s known applications, continued growth of functionality and speed of video processing systems will likely further enable novel applications.