Speaker:

Shorin Kyo, Renesas Electronics Corporation, Japan

Title:

Multi/many-core Processing Prospective for Embedded Computer Vision

Abstract:

Nowadays multi/many-core processors and/or their heterogeneous combinations such as GPGPU and multi-core CPU/DSPs are becomming commonplace. However, an existing critical issue is the absence of framework for efficiently developing performance portable applications which can, not only run on each of the heterogeneous multi/many core, but also sufficiently exploit their inherent performance. This talk introduces case studies and challenges, in the context of embedded computer vision application domain, attempt to solve the above described issue, as well as to further optimize hardware configurations of multi/many-core homogeneous/heterogeneous processors for power and performance, based on the use of domain specific knowledges.

Bio:

Shorin Kyo received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in precision engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1987, 1989, and 2004, respectively. He joined NEC in 1989, transferred to Renesas Electronics in 2010, and is currently a principal researcher of the LSI Research Laboratory. In 1994-1995, he was a visiting researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Department of Applied Physics. He has been involved for over twenty years, in researches of highly parallel processing architectures targeting computer vision, and has managed the design of several products based on the developed technologies. He is currently representing Renesas at the Khronos OpenVX working group toward the establishment of industrial standard API for developing highly portable, performant, and power efficient computer vision applications. He is also the winner of several awards, including the 2009 IPSJ Kiyasu special industrial achievement award, the 2010 SSII Takagi award, and the 2013 MVA most influential paper over the decade award. He is a member of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and a member of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE).