Internet traffic is increasing dramatically, and images comprise a large portion of internet data. Many companies are dealing with huge quantities of images in the data center and performing various image processing tasks. For example, image decoding, resizing, cropping, and encoding are typical tasks that use large numbers of servers. These functions are resource intensive, and CPU performance per core is not keeping pace with demand. The CIP accelerator accelerates PNG, JPEG, WebP, HEIF and Lepton decoding or encoding, as well as image resizing and cropped pixel processing. The CIP accelerator effectively accelerates thumbnail generation and image transcoding, common image processing functions such as sharpening and watermarking, and image analytics.
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The popularity of smartphone and social network makes taking and sharing of pictures extremely simple and convenient. In China alone there are 620 million mobile phone users, 74% of which use their devices to take pictures. These pictures inevitably end up as image data stored in Internet Data Centers (IDC).As a result, image processing computation such as image transcoding, thumbnail generation, image recognition and the like on these massive image data have become part of IDC computation workload. CTAccel Image Processing (CIP) accelerator is an FPGA-based image processing acceleration solution that greatly improves the performance of image processing and image analytics by transferring computational workload from CPU to FPGA. CIP's powerful processing capabilities improves data centers throughput and latency while reduces total cost of ownership.