A real-time edge detection ASIC design

Author

Fesharaki, Mehdi N. ; Hellestrand, Graham R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., New South Wales Univ., Kensington, NSW, Australia

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

30 May-2 Jun 1994

Firstpage

81

Abstract

A method of generating edge maps thereby segmenting an image into regions based an the Kolomogorov-Smirnov test is presented. By applying this test to compare the cumulative distribution functions of the intensities in the neighborhood of a given pixel, the pixel call be accurately classified as either an edge pixel on the boundary between regions, or as a pixel of a particular type of region. Using the simple operations in a parallel pipeline fashion, an ASIC for this algorithm is designed and it is shown that this algorithm can satisfy easily the required speed for implementing edge detection for images with 512×512 refreshing at 25 frames per second

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; edge detection; image segmentation; integrated circuit design; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; real-time systems; ASIC design; Kolomogorov-Smirnov test; cumulative distribution functions; edge maps; edge pixel; image segmentation; parallel pipeline; pixel call; real-time edge detection; refresh; Additive noise; Application specific integrated circuits; Australia; Computer science; Design engineering; Image edge detection; Laboratories; Partitioning algorithms; Pixel; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1994. ISCAS '94., 1994 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1915-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1994.409108

Filename

409108