WHEN MEMORY WAS MEASURED IN KILOBYTES: THE ART OF EFFICIENT VISION

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In the early days of computer vision, when memory was extremely limited, researchers at Inria developed "An Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm" to extract meaningful information from images. This algorithm, created by the PASTIS team, processed images line by line, storing only a few lines at a time, making it memory-efficient. The code's dynamic memory allocation was ingenious and was necessary.