Vision processing unitA vision processing unit (VPU) is (as of 2023) an emerging class of microprocessor; it is a specific type of AI accelerator, designed to accelerate machine vision tasks. Vision processing units are distinct from video processing units (which are specialised for video encoding and decoding) in their suitability for running machine vision algorithms such as CNN (convolutional neural networks), SIFT (scale-invariant feature transform) and similar.
Decimal floating pointDecimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal (base-10) fractions can avoid the rounding errors that otherwise typically occur when converting between decimal fractions (common in human-entered data, such as measurements or financial information) and binary (base-2) fractions. The advantage of decimal floating-point representation over decimal fixed-point and integer representation is that it supports a much wider range of values.
Neural networkA neural network can refer to a neural circuit of biological neurons (sometimes also called a biological neural network), a network of artificial neurons or nodes in the case of an artificial neural network. Artificial neural networks are used for solving artificial intelligence (AI) problems; they model connections of biological neurons as weights between nodes. A positive weight reflects an excitatory connection, while negative values mean inhibitory connections. All inputs are modified by a weight and summed.
Direct rendering infrastructureDirect Rendering Infrastructure, (infrastructure pour le rendu direct en anglais), abrégé en DRI , est un procédé de XFree86 4.x / X.Org permettant aux applications Mesa 3D (implémentation libre d'OpenGL) de gagner du temps en accédant directement au processeur graphique sans passer par le serveur X. La plupart des pilotes libres de cartes graphiques implémentent ce procédé via Gallium 3D aujourd'hui. Le projet a été initialement développé par Jens Owen et Kevin E. Martin pour Precision Insight Inc.
Double-precision floating-point formatDouble-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point. Floating point is used to represent fractional values, or when a wider range is needed than is provided by fixed point (of the same bit width), even if at the cost of precision. Double precision may be chosen when the range or precision of single precision would be insufficient.
Feature (computer vision)In computer vision and , a feature is a piece of information about the content of an image; typically about whether a certain region of the image has certain properties. Features may be specific structures in the image such as points, edges or objects. Features may also be the result of a general neighborhood operation or feature detection applied to the image. Other examples of features are related to motion in image sequences, or to shapes defined in terms of curves or boundaries between different image regions.
Half-precision floating-point formatIn computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers) in computer memory. It is intended for storage of floating-point values in applications where higher precision is not essential, in particular and neural networks. Almost all modern uses follow the IEEE 754-2008 standard, where the 16-bit base-2 format is referred to as binary16, and the exponent uses 5 bits.
DirectXMicrosoft DirectX est une collection de bibliothèques destinées à la programmation d’applications multimédia, plus particulièrement de jeux ou de programmes faisant intervenir de la vidéo, sur les plates-formes Microsoft et Sony (Xbox, , , , systèmes d’exploitation Windows). À l’origine le nom de chacune de ces bibliothèques commençait par Direct, par exemple : Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound et ainsi de suite. DirectX étant le nom générique faisant référence à l’ensemble de ces technologies.
Mesure stéréoscopiqueLa stéréovision ou mesure stéréoscopique est une méthode de mesure qui consiste à se servir de la prise d'images (photographiques ou numériques) prises de différents points de vue, pour déterminer les dimensions, les formes ou les positions d'objets. Pour cela on utilise : soit des appareils photographiques étalonnés utilisant des films argentiques plans et stables dimensionnellement ou des détecteurs C.C.D à haute résolution pour des mesures statiques ; soit des caméras (film ou CCD) si des mesures dynamiques sont nécessaires (vidéogrammétrie).
Quadruple-precision floating-point formatIn computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision at least twice the 53-bit double precision. This 128-bit quadruple precision is designed not only for applications requiring results in higher than double precision, but also, as a primary function, to allow the computation of double precision results more reliably and accurately by minimising overflow and round-off errors in intermediate calculations and scratch variables.
