In Throughput Computing, the data can be processed independently with a substantial amount of threads running similar programs, referred to as kernels, or shaders for graphics specific workload. A Throughput Computing device, such as GPU, requires task latency tolerance to hold the context of the outstanding threads, and data latency tolerance to hold spaces for memory requests issued from the threads. The threads are grouped into thread groups. The register file and the associated number of outstanding thread groups should be sized according to the ratio of the computing resources to load/store units. Such a ratio should reflect the balance between ALU and load/store instructions of target workload.

Determining the rigid transformation relating 2D images to known 3D geometry is a classical problem in photogrammetry and computer vision. Heretofore, the best methods for solving the problem have relied on iterative optimization methods which cannot be proven to converge and/or which do not effectively account for the orthonormal structure of rotation matrices. We show that the pose estimation problem can be formulated as that of minimizing an error metric based on collinearity in object (as opposed to image) space. Using object space collinearity error, we derive an iterative algorithm which directly computes orthogonal rotation matrices and which is globally convergent. Experimentally, we show that the method is computationally efficient, that it is no less accurate than the best currently employed optimization methods, and that it outperforms all tested methods in robustness to outliers.

A fundamental open problem in computer vision—determining pose and correspondence between two sets of points in space—is solved with a novel, fast, robust and easily implementable algorithm. The technique works on noisy 2D or 3D point sets that may be of unequal sizes and may differ by non-rigid transformations. Using a combination of optimization techniques such as deterministic annealing and the softassign, which have recently emerged out of the recurrent neural network/statistical physics framework, analog objective functions describing the problems are minimized. Over thirty thousand experiments, on randomly generated points sets with varying amounts of noise and missing and spurious points, and on hand-written character sets demonstrate the robustness of the algorithm.

A fundamental open problem in computer vision-determining pose and correspondence between two sets of points in space(cid:173) is solved with a novel, robust and easily implementable algorithm. The technique works on noisy point sets that may be of unequal sizes and may differ by non-rigid transformations. A 2D varia(cid:173) tion calculates the pose between point sets related by an affine transformation-translation, rotation, scale and shear. A 3D to 3D variation calculates translation and rotation. An objective describ(cid:173) ing the problem is derived from Mean field theory. The objective is minimized with clocked (EM-like) dynamics. Experiments with both handwritten and synthetic data provide empirical evidence for the method.