
List of Figures
1.1 Comparison of number of cores in a CPU and in a GPU. . . 6
1.2 Comparison of low latency of a CPU and high throughput of
a GPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3 Scalability of GPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.4 Memory hierarchy of a GPU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.1 Example of 5x5 median filtering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
4.2 Illustration of window overlapping in 5x5 median filtering. . 34
4.3 Example of median filtering, applied to salt and pepper noise
reduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.4 Comparison of pixel throughputs