Development of high-speed and real-time vision platform, H3 vision

• Published in: 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems pp. 3671 - 3678
• Main Authors: Ishii, I., Taniguchi, T., Sukenobe, R., Yamamoto, K.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: IEEE 01-10-2009
• Subjects: Engines; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; High speed optical techniques; Humans; Image motion analysis; Image processing; Logic; Optical detectors; Pixel
• ISBN: 9781424438037; 1424438039
• ISSN: 2153-0858; 2153-0866
• DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354718

In this paper, we introduce a high-speed vision platform, H 3 (Hiroshima hyper human) vision, which can simultaneously process a 1024 × 1024 pixel image at 1000 fps and a 256 × 256 pixel image at 10000 fps by implementing image processing algorithms as hardware logic on a dedicated FPGA board. Various types of algorithms are actually implemented to show that H 3 Vision can work a high-speed image processing engine. Experimental results are shown for multi-target color tracking, feature point tracking, optical flow detection, and pattern recognition by using high-order local auto-correlation (HLAC) feature at a frame rate of 1000 fps or more.