The evolution of a massively parallel vision system for real-time automotive image processing

Author

Broggi, Alberto

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell´´Inf., Parma Univ., Italy

fYear

1996

fDate

15-19 Apr 1996

Firstpage

724

Lastpage

728

Abstract

This paper presents the first prototype of the PAPRICA massively parallel system which is integrated in the MOB-LAB experimental land vehicle for real-time vision-based road marking detection. Its main bottlenecks are highlighted and its evolution toward a linear array is discussed. This system has been enhanced with a simple but powerful interprocessor communication network for the exchange of information among processors not directly connected, which allows an extremely efficient implementation of the road marking detection algorithm as well as other morphological applications

Keywords

automated highways; computer vision; image recognition; multiprocessor interconnection networks; parallel architectures; real-time systems; road vehicles; traffic engineering computing; MOB-LAB experimental land vehicle; PAPRICA; interprocessor communication network; linear array; massively parallel vision system; morphological applications; prototype; real-time automotive image processing; vision-based road marking detection; Automotive engineering; Communication networks; Detection algorithms; Image processing; Land vehicles; Machine vision; Pixel; Prototypes; Real time systems; Roads; Vehicle detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of IPPS '96, The 10th International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7255-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPPS.1996.508138

Filename

508138