<div dir="ltr"><br>And here's a completely unrelated (CPU driven, and very slow & intensive) research paper on the state of the art of vectorization that I came across while looking into this. Not useful in this case, but still very informative if anyone is interested in vectorization algorithms: 

<a href="https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0376350">https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0376350</a></div>