MIT and Harvard researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to see (web.mit.edu)

Granted I just skimmed the article, but do they discuss the algorithm at all?? It seemed like they're just saying buzzwords, "parallel","gpu","vision is hard", etc.

Does anyone know if a new CV algorithm is involved in this?

Journal article (open access): http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

It's a really neat application of General Purpose GPU programming:

http://gpgpu.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU