Embedded and modular video processing design platform

Research and industry increasingly rely on image processing to analyze an environment. Most image processing requires significant computing power and consequently a complex processing unit. This paper presents a hardware specific platform that computes common image processing algorithms and extracts the information from a video stream. By this arrangement, the image processing can be customized for a specific application, using the same embedded system. This platform also simplifies the development of image processing systems and algorithms by focusing on higher level algorithmic operations.