Designing the Processing Pipeline
Stages, buffers, and data flow.
Think in Stages
A real image pipeline is a chain of stages: load, blur, sharpen, color-correct, save. Each stage is one clear transformation you can reason about alone. 🧩
Data Flows One Way
Pixels move forward through the pipeline: each stage reads the previous output and produces the next input. This one-way data flow keeps the design simple to follow.
All lessons in this course
- Designing the Processing Pipeline
- Fusing Filters into One Kernel
- Streaming Tiles for Big Images
- Profile, Optimize, Ship