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Experience report: embedded, parallel computer-vision with a functional DSL

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International Conference on Functional Programming archive
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming table of contents

Edinburgh, Scotland

SESSION: Session 3 table of contents

Pages 59-64

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-332-7

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Authors

Ryan R. Newton	MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Teresa Ko	UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents our experience using a domain-specific functional language, WaveScript, to build embedded sensing applications used in scientific research. We focus on a recent computervision application for detecting birds in their natural environment. The application was ported from a prototype in C++. In reimplementing the application, we gained a much cleaner factoring of its functionality (through higher-order functions and better interfaces to libraries) and a near-linear parallel speed-up with no additional effort. These benefits are offset by one substantial downside: the lack of familiarity with the language of the original vision researchers, who understandably tried to use the language in the familiar way they use C++ and thus ran into various problems.

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	2	Michael Allen, Lewis Girod, Ryan Newton, Samuel Madden, Daniel T. Blumstein, and Deborah Estrin. Voxnet: An interactive, rapidlydeployable acoustic monitoring platform. In IPSN '08: Information processing in sensor networks, 2008.
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