Technical Notes

From OpenCV on the Cell

The following documents describe in detail techniques that were used during implementation of the CVCell module. If you interested in how single functions are developed then please click here.

Optimization Strategy

This page explains the basic strategy of optimization on the Cell/B.E.

OpenCV plugin module

This page explains the internals of a plugin module. The CVCell module is implemented as a plugin module of OpenCV API. It is a same technique as using IPP and MKL on x86 environment.

SPU code overlay

This page explains the SPU code overlay. The CVCell module uses this mechanism to reduce the overhead in calling functions from the PPU.