Title :
FPGA pulse mode implementation of a Gaussian Fuzzy C-Means algorithm
Author :
Mohamed Krid;Marwa Karray;Dorra Sellami Masmoudi
Author_Institution :
Computers Imaging Electronics and Systems Group (CIELS) from Advanced Control and Energy Management Laboratory (CEMLab), University of Sfax, Sfax Engineering School, BP W, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia
fDate :
3/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) is well known as a fuzzy clustering approach offering good performances in image processing applications. The use of the Euclidian distance in the membership function causes a tremendous complexity in hardware implementation. For this reason, we propose a modified version of the FCM algorithm aiming at hardware resources minimization. In this paper, a pulse mode hardware architecture of this algorithm is proposed and implemented in a Virtex 6 FPGA platform. Such implementation offers many advantages over software solution, namely in speed.
Keywords :
"Radiation detectors","Computer architecture","Approximation methods","Hardware","Clustering algorithms","Shift registers","Field programmable gate arrays"
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD), 2015 12th International Multi-Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/SSD.2015.7348260
