Everything about Vision processing unit

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Vision processing unitA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Alexander ArchipenkoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Always-on Vision Processing Unit for Mobile ApplicationsCited 91 times
4. Go sideways: Neural processing unitA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Manycore processorA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Always-on Vision Processing Unit for Mobile Applications

  Brendan Barry, Cormac Brick, Fergal Connor · 2015 · IEEE Micro · 91 citations

• A Hybrid Vision Processing Unit with a Pipelined Workflow for Convolutional Neural Network Accelerating and Image Signal Processing

  Peng Liu, Yan Song · 2021 · Electronics · 6 citations

• A Heterogeneous Architecture for the Vision Processing Unit with a Hybrid Deep Neural Network Accelerator

  Peng Liu, Zikai Yang, Lin Kang · 2022 · Micromachines · 6 citations

• A generic real-time video processing unit for low vision

  Fernando Vargas-Martín, M. Dolores Peláez-Coca, Eduardo Ros · 2005 · International Congress Series · 3 citations

• Data Processing Unit for Energy Saving in Computer Vision: Weapon Detection Use Case

  Marina Perea-Trigo, Enrique J. López-Ortiz, Jose L. Salazar-González · 2022 · Electronics · 3 citations

• Transputer based digital signal processing unit for A 3-D vision system

  P. Jokitalo, E. Honkanen, I. Moring · 1989 · Microprocessing and Microprogramming · 2 citations

• Graphical processing unit-based machine vision system for simultaneous measurement of shrinkage and soil release in fabrics

  Sridharan Kamalakannan, Arunkumar Gururajan, Matthew M. Hill · 2010 · Journal of Electronic Imaging · 2 citations

• Flicker-Suppressed Neuromorphic Unit for Dynamic Vision Processing

  Pengshan Xie, Shuhui Shi, Lei Ran · 2026 · ACS Nano · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Alexander ArchipenkoAlexander Archipenko, Iryna Kashubynsʹka · 1900
• The unified software development processIvar Jacobson · 1999
• 📕Image processingDavid Fofi · 2008
• The healthcare quality bookElizabeth R. Ransom · 2008
• 📕Our heritage - our visionUnited States. Military Entrance Processing Command. · 1993
• 📕JFKStephen Kennedy Smith · 2017
• 📕The VISION assessment systemChristopher L. Tsai, Robert S. Tripp · 1992
• Breaking the MoldNational Research Council (US) · 1993

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