Fast direct image retrieval for mechanical drawings management by using parallel processing

Abstract

This paper describes a high performance parallel image retrieval system for mechanical drawings management. The system is designed with PC-cluster that consistes of one master node and eight slave nodes. In order to achieve a higher performance, parallel processing and precise searching process are introduced to the proposed system. The parallel processing uses many rotated templates of a target symbol to perform pattern matching by each slave node. The precise searching is newly designed by analyzing our previous study for image retrieval of mechanical drawings. Object detection in many kind of images continues to be one of the most common application for image processing and understanding. We first discuss some essential issues to be considered conventional object detection with large digital images. Experimental results by using the proposed system are also described. The good performance of the system is shown.