Power and performance characterization, analysis and tuning for energy-efficient edge detection on atom and ARM based platforms

The de facto standard for embedded platforms with medium to low computing demands are ARM with Thumb ISA and Intel Atom with the X86 ISA with multiple cores. Operating these architectures in the milliwatts range while running realtime computer vision corner detection algorithms is a challenging problem. We present the analysis of power, performance and energy-efficiency measurements of Harris corner detection across a wide range of voltage and...