Decoupling algorithms from schedules for easy optimization of image processing pipelines

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<jats:p> Using existing programming tools, writing high-performance image processing code requires sacrificing readability, portability, and modularity. We argue that this is a consequence of conflating what computations define the <jats:italic>algorithm</jats:italic> , with decisions about <jats:italic>storage</jats:italic> and the <jats:italic>order</jats:italic> of computation. We refer to these latter two concerns as the <jats:italic>schedule</jats:italic> , including choices of tiling, fusion, recomputation vs. storage, vectorization, and parallelism. </jats:p> <jats:p>We propose a representation for feed-forward imaging pipelines that separates the algorithm from its schedule, enabling high-performance without sacrificing code clarity. This decoupling simplifies the algorithm specification: images and intermediate buffers become functions over an infinite integer domain, with no explicit storage or boundary conditions. Imaging pipelines are compositions of functions. Programmers separately specify scheduling strategies for the various functions composing the algorithm, which allows them to efficiently explore different optimizations without changing the algorithmic code.</jats:p> <jats:p>We demonstrate the power of this representation by expressing a range of recent image processing applications in an embedded domain specific language called Halide, and compiling them for ARM, x86, and GPUs. Our compiler targets SIMD units, multiple cores, and complex memory hierarchies. We demonstrate that it can handle algorithms such as a camera raw pipeline, the bilateral grid, fast local Laplacian filtering, and image segmentation. The algorithms expressed in our language are both shorter and faster than state-of-the-art implementations.</jats:p>

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