Three video applications using an FPGA based pyramid implementation: Tracking, Mosaics and Stabilization

Author

Nuno-Maganda, Marco Aurelio ; Arias-Estrada, Miguel O. ; Feregrino-Uribe, Claudia

Author_Institution

Inst. Nacional de Astrofisica, Opt. y Electron., Puebla, Mexico

fYear

2003

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

336

Lastpage

339

Abstract

In this paper we present a set of hardware modules which form the basis for three vision applications: Target Tracking, Image Stabilization and Image Mosaicking. The two main modules are: the pyramidal module and the multiresolution correlation module. They were implemented using the Handle-C language, and tested in the Celoxica RC1000 development platform, which has a Virtex-E FPGA. We show the performance statistics for tracking more than one target using the basic modules, and present results of the applications implemented based on these basic modules.

Keywords

C language; field programmable gate arrays; image representation; image resolution; image segmentation; target tracking; C language; Celoxica RC1000 development platform; FPGA based pyramid; Virtex-E FPGA; hardware modules; image mosaicking; image stabilization; multiresolution correlation module; pyramidal module; target tracking; video applications; Application software; Artificial intelligence; Computer crime; Computer vision; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Image analysis; Image generation; Image resolution; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field-Programmable Technology (FPT), 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8320-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPT.2003.1275771

Filename

1275771