Design of Multi-channel Image Superimposition System Based on FPGA

Author

Yong, Li ; Tianqing, Chang ; Fan, Bai ; Lei, Zhang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Control Eng., Acad. of Armored Force Eng., Beijing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

11-12 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

417

Lastpage

420

Abstract

A multi-channel image superimposition system is designed in this paper. It can superimpose white-light image on infrared thermal image to generate mixture image. The system is realized on a FPGA chip and is mainly composed of multi-channel DMA controller and image superimposition module. Multi-channel DMA controller can realize data exchange between image superimpositon module and memory independent of vehicle-loaded CPU. Image superimposition module adopts Alpha channel mixture algrithm to mix two-channel images. Equations of algrithm are modified to forms that can be easily designed on a FPGA chip. Due to using programmable chips and parallel processing technology, the system has high integration, good maintenance, quick image processing speed and strong real-time capability.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; image processing; microprocessor chips; military computing; parallel processing; weapons; FPGA chip; alpha channel mixture algorithm; field programmable gate array; image processing; infrared thermal image; mixture image; multichannel DMA controller; multichannel image superimposition system; parallel processing technology; programmable chips; FPGA; Iimage Superimposition; Mutli-channel DMA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optoelectronics and Image Processing (ICOIP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Haiko

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8683-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOIP.2010.314

Filename

5663009