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When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision
Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Take a peek into early computer vision's elegant solutions.
Down in sunny Sophia Antipolis, a tech park 20 minutes inland from Antibes, the team tackled computer vision with a distinctly local flavor. By processing the image sequentially, storing only a few lines at a time, and building pixel chains incrementally without looking back, it offers a lean and effective alternative to the memory-hungry approaches now common. Un standard pour une représentation d’objets de type liste dans le domaine du traitement d’images, n° 82, décembre 1988 – 3ieme édition, P. Garnesson, G. Giraudon.
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