Proceedings of a September 2000 conference. Besides the traditional topics reflecting advances in smart sensing, parallel and distributed computing, real-time systems, and massively parallel architectures, contributions emphasize developments in architectures for image understanding, sound recognition, and other senses; configurable and FPGA-based perception architecture; coprocessors and Instructor Set Architecture extensions; inference engines and machine intelligence architectures; rule-based systems and knowledge-based machines; architectural performance evaluation; distributed processing for perception systems and sensor fusion; internet imaging; parallel video servers; languages, software environments, and programming tools; and neural network and genetic algorithm applications in perception. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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