Skeleton-based Synthesis Flow for Computation-In-Memory Architectures

Memristor-based Computation-in-Memory (CIM) is one of the emerging architectures for next-generation Big Data problems. Its design requires a radically new synthesis flow as the memristor is a passive device that uses resistances to encode its logic values. This article proposes a synthesis flow for mapping parallel applications on memristor...

Building outline extraction from als point clouds using medial axis transform descriptors

Automatic building extraction and delineation from airborne LiDAR point cloud data of urban environments is still a challenging task due to the variety and complexity at which buildings appear. The Medial Axis Transform (MAT) is able to describe the geometric shape and topology of an object, but has never been applied for building roof...

Automatic identification of watercourses in flat and engineered landscapes by computing the skeleton of a LiDAR point cloud

Drainage networks play a crucial role in protecting land against floods. It is therefore important to have an accurate map of the watercourses that form the drainage network. Previous work on the automatic identification of watercourses was typically based on grids, focused on natural landscapes, and used mostly the slope and curvature of the...

Skeleton-based design and simulation flow for Computation-in-Memory architectures

Memristor-based Computation-in-Memory is one of the emerging architectures proposed to deal with Big Data problems. The design of such architectures requires a radically new automatic design flow because the memristor is a passive device that uses resistance to encode its logic value. This paper proposes a design flow for mapping parallel...

Skeleton-based botanic tree diameter estimation from dense LiDAR data

New airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) measurement systems, like the FLI-MAP 400 System, make it possible to obtain high density data containing far more information about single objects, like trees, than traditional airborne laser systems. Therefore, it becomes feasible to analyze geometric properties of trees on the individual object...