REAL-TIME FPGA-BASED IMAGE RECTIFICATION SYSTEM

Cristian Vancea, Sergiu Nedevschi, Mihai Negru, Stefan Mathe

2006

Abstract

Image rectification is the process of transforming stereo-images as if they were captured using a canonical stereo-system. Computationally intensive tasks, like dense stereo matching, are greatly simplified if performed on rectified images. We developed an efficient pipeline hardware machine which performs real-time image rectification. The design was implemented using VHDL, thus allowing portability on many hardware platforms. The architecture was highly optimized, both in terms of time and resources needed. To increase its flexibility, the design was described based on generics (configuration parameters), which allow reconfiguring different characteristics and behaviour, such as: image size, number of precision bits, memory cache complexity. We also analyze the performance of the implemented solution on a VirtexE600 FPGA device.

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in Harvard Style

Vancea C., Nedevschi S., Negru M. and Mathe S. (2006). REAL-TIME FPGA-BASED IMAGE RECTIFICATION SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, ISBN 972-8865-40-6, pages 93-100. DOI: 10.5220/0001369500930100


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp06,
author={Cristian Vancea and Sergiu Nedevschi and Mihai Negru and Stefan Mathe},
title={REAL-TIME FPGA-BASED IMAGE RECTIFICATION SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={93-100},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001369500930100},
isbn={972-8865-40-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP,
TI - REAL-TIME FPGA-BASED IMAGE RECTIFICATION SYSTEM
SN - 972-8865-40-6
AU - Vancea C.
AU - Nedevschi S.
AU - Negru M.
AU - Mathe S.
PY - 2006
SP - 93
EP - 100
DO - 10.5220/0001369500930100