Academic Articles & Research Papers

Design and Implementation of a FPGA and DSP Based MIMO Radar Imaging System

The work presented in this paper is aimed at the implementation of a real-time multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) imaging radar used for area surveillance. In this radar, the equivalent virtual array method and time-division technique ar...

Comparing an FPGA to a Cell for an Image Processing Application

Modern advancements in configurable hardware, most notably Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), have provided an exciting opportunity to discover the parallel nature of modern image processing algorithms. On the other hand, PlayStation3 ...

FPGA-based multi-view stereo system with flexible measurement setup

In recent years, stereoscopic image processing algorithms have gained importance for a variety of applications. To capture larger measurement volumes, multiple stereo systems are combined into a multi-view stereo (MVS) system. To reduce the...

Very large‐scale integration architecture for video stabilisation and implementation on a field programmable gate array‐based autonomous vehicle

Autonomous vehicles engaged in terrain exploration are typically equipped with a camera. The camera is subjected to vibration as the vehicle moves so that the videos captured require stabilisation to facilitate accurate interpretation by re...

Computer vision algorithms and hardware implementations: A survey

The field of computer vision is experiencing a great-leap-forward development today. This paper aims at providing a comprehensive survey of the recent progress on computer vision algorithms and their corresponding hardware implementations. ...

A Wilson–Cowan reservoir computer for interpretable spatiotemporal vision

Abstract We present a Wilson–Cowan reservoir computer (WC–RC) that treats a retinotopic excitatory–inhibitory neural field as a structured reservoir. Travelling waves and bounded oscillations provide an interpretable spatiotemporal basis, w...

Hardware and Software Optimizations for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks: Survey of Current Trends, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Currently, Machine Learning (ML) is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Deep Learning (DL) is already present in many applications ranging from computer vision for medicine to autonomous driving of modern cars as well as other sectors in ...

Handbook of computer vision and applications

Contents of Volume One: Preface. Contributors. B. Jahne, Introduction. Illumination and Image Formation. H. Hausecker, Radiation. H. Hausecker, Interaction of Radiation with Matter. P. Geisler, Geometric and Wave Optics. H. Hausecker, Radio...

FPGA Implementations of Neural Networks

A Multi-Class ECG Signal Classifier Using a Binarized Depthwise Separable CNN with the Merged Convolution–Pooling Method

Binarized convolutional neural networks (bCNNs) are favored for the design of low-storage, low-power cardiac arrhythmia classifiers owing to their high weight compression rate. However, multi-class classification of ECG signals based on bCN...

Trinity: In-Database Near-Data Machine Learning Acceleration Platform for Advanced Data Analytics

The ability to perform machine learning (ML) tasks in a database management system (DBMS) is a new paradigm for conventional database systems as it enables advanced data analytics on top of well-established capabilities of DBMSs. However, t...