Dawson, L. and Stewart, I.A. (2014) 'Accelerating ant colony optimization-based edge detection on the GPU using CUDA.', in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation : July 6-11, 2014, Beijing, China. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, pp. 1736-1743.
Abstract
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic that can be applied to a wide range of optimization problems. In this paper we present the first parallel implementation of an ACO-based (image processing) edge detection algorithm on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) using NVIDIA CUDA. We extend recent work so that we are able to implement a novel data-parallel approach that maps individual ants to thread warps. By exploiting the massively parallel nature of the GPU, we are able to execute significantly more ants per ACO-iteration allowing us to reduce the total number of iterations required to create an edge map. We hope that reducing the execution time of an ACO-based implementation of edge detection will increase its viability in image processing and computer vision.
| Item Type: | Book chapter |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (867Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2014.6900638 |
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| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 08 August 2016 |
| Date of first online publication: | July 2014 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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