FPGA accelerator for real-time skin segmentation

Author

de Ruijsscher, B. ; Gaydadjiev, Georgi N. ; Lichtenauer, Jeroen ; Hendriks, Emile

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng., Math. & Comput. Sci. Dept., Delft Univ. of Technol.

fYear

2006

Firstpage

93

Lastpage

97

Abstract

Many real-time image processing applications are confronted with performance limitations when implemented in software. The skin segmentation algorithm utilized in hand gesture recognition as developed by the ICT department of Delft University of Technology presents an example of such an application. This paper presents the design of an FPGA based accelerator which alleviates the host PC´s computational effort required for real-time skin segmentation. We show that our design utilizes no more than 88% of the resources available within the targeted XC2VP30 device. In addition, the proposed approach is highly portable and not limited to the considered real-time image processing algorithm only

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; gesture recognition; image segmentation; skin; FPGA based accelerator; field programmable gate array; hand gesture recognition; real-time image processing application; skin segmentation algorithm; Application software; Cameras; Ethernet networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Image processing; Image segmentation; Mathematics; Pipelines; Pixel; Skin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded Systems for Real Time Multimedia, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/ACM/IFIP Workshop on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9783-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESTMED.2006.321280

Filename

4115460