switching between vector and image formats

[siddy]

Hi experts,
Any advise on how the application can seamlessly interpret an image (ippi..) as a vector (ipps..)?, of the data type that exists in both representations?

[Naveen_G_Intel]

Hi,

IPPS functions are expected data type is single dimensional (1D), IPPI functions processing data as 2D.

Regards,

Naveen Gv

[siddy]

Yes, but can there be 2 strides for element access patterns, one for an "as vector" access and second for
"as image" access ? (maybe a third for volume access too). Why I say this is that in Matlab (which also expects vectorized coding style) it is possible, and it simplifies vectorization efforts and yields a good performance impact (as compared to a non-vectorized matlab code). I have personally found it very beneficial to re-interpret the same data block as vector, stack of image frames or volumes within the same application, depending on what is being extracted from (of) the data.

Just a thought at best, maybe an entry in my wish list too...