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Energy-Efficient Approximate Prewitt Filter Design

2025· article· W7123359749 on OpenAlexaff
Mahmoud Masadeh, Abdel Rahman Idrais, Omar AlShorman

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Typearticle
Language
FieldEngineering
TopicLow-power high-performance VLSI design
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrewitt operatorRangingFilter (signal processing)Image processingEdge detectionImage manipulationSet (abstract data type)Filter designDetector

Abstract

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Approximate computing (AC) is widely adopted as a new and emerging design paradigm for error-resilient applications, e.g., image processing, where sacrificed accuracy is utilized for design efficiency. The approximation is introduced within applications that include huge sensory-generated data or when the results of the application are visually consumed. Prewitt Filter is an efficient edge detector whose hardware implementation is based mainly on full adders (FAs), squaring units, and square root units. In this paper, we explore various approximate designs of the Prewitt Filter and evaluate different target area reductions, ranging from$5 \%$to$\text{5 5 \%}$. We define the different types of utilized FAs. For that, we utilize a set of five energy-efficient approximate FAs. The generated approximate Prewitt filters are suitable for image processing applications, where experiments have shown that the obtained designs achieve 5 % to 55 % reductions in area and power.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.207
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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