Re: Determining row of pixels among a group that has the max number

homer123123123@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> Thanks for the info so far. Sorry about the confusion regarding the
> actual number of pixels. It is  90 of 10x1. The raw data is coming
> from temperature sensors. We are trying to figure out the hotspots in
> a flow. I am trying to think of simpler ways to pinpoint the bank of
> sensors which has the hot spot.

Does it have to be 10x1 ?

If they are byte data samples then 8x1 would allow you to use MMX SIMD 
extensions for parallism on Intel/AMD platforms.

> Therefore I was thinking of creative ways to analyze the data instead
> of just looking at it as a list of temperature points.
> 
> Is it possible using some algorithm to determine probabilistically
> which of the banks has the max number of sensors with a temperature
> above a given threshold ? i.e I dont need to know deterministically
> which of the sensor banks has the hotspot. If I can know that it is
> bank "x" with a probability of "y" that would also be acceptable.

Not unless you have some other information about where to look.
How fast does this have to run?

Regards,
Martin Brown
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