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November 30, 2007

Fixstars Accelerates OpenCV Library for Cell Processor

TOKYO, Nov. 28 -- Fixstars Corporation today announced that the company developed the new "CVCell" module aiming to accelerate several important OpenCV APIs for the Cell Broadband Engine. CVCell achieved up to 27 times faster performance in image processing compared to Intel Core2Duo 2.4 GHz.

OpenCV is an open source computer vision library developed by Intel Corporation. It provides many APIs, including Object Identification, Motion Tracking, and Stereo Matching. By installing the Cell/B.E. CVCell module together with the OpenCV library, we were able to accelerate by several tens of times the important OpenCV APIs.

We measured the processing time of major APIs that use the OpenCV library and compared the performance of PS3 equipped with Cell/B.E. and a PC equipped with Intel Core2Duo. The results indicated that PS3 with CVCell was up to 27 times faster than the PC.

"In the computer vision field where there is a speed-accuracy tradeoff, a high-speed computing processor such as Cell/B.E will bring technological innovations," said Dr. Yosuke Tamura, chief technology officer of Fixstars. "We expect that it will be helpful in accelerating the construction of a Cell/B.E. ecological system, and penetrate into several markets to promote technological innovations."

Fixstars has been running the Web site "OpenCV on the Cell," where it provides CVCell and information about the OpenCV library for PS3 Linux (http://cell.fixstars.com/opencv/index.php). CVCell is distributed as open source software.

About Fixstars

Fixstars Corp. provides solutions using cutting-edge software technology. Since the company was founded in 2002, Fixstars has been focused on the high computing performance of Cell/B.E., and has a high reputation for industry-leading levels of development for multicore parallel programming using Cell/B.E., grid computing and sensor networks. The company is headquartered in Tokyo. For more details, visit http://www.fixstars.com/en.

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Source: Fixstars Corp.

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