A high-level tool for the design of custom image processing systems

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2005

Authors

Martins, S (Author) Other; José Carlos Alves (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: DSD 2005: 8th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Proceedings

Pages: 346-349

8th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design

Oporto, PORTUGAL, AUG 30-SEP 03, 2005

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Authenticus ID: P-000-5JQ

DOI: 10.1109/dsd.2005.7

Abstract (EN): Real-time image processing is a computational intensive task with applications in various engineering fields. In several image processing applications, a significant amount of computing power is committed to image enhancement operations, basic segmentation and identification of regions of interest for further analysis. Such type of front-end processing can be done efficiently by custom data-flow processors closely coupled to an image sensor This paper proposes a visual design environment to support the high-level design of custom data-flow processors for real-time image analysis applications. The tool is embedded in Matlab/Simulink, and the system modeling is done using a library of blocks that implement common low-level image processing operations. Functional validation is performed efficiently by the simulation engine of Simulink in a frame by frame basis, using the functions provided by the image processing toolbox in Matlab. The automatic generation of a synthesizable RTL model guarantees a logic implementation of the system that complies to the high-level model validated, under constraints imposed by the user and the target reconfigurable device.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4