On the Design of Change-driven Data-flow Algorithms and Architectures for High-speed Motion Analysis

Jose A. Boluda, Pedro Zuccarello, Fernando Pardo, Francisco Vegara

2012

Abstract

Motion analysis is a computationally demanding task due to the large amount of data involved as well as the complexity of the implicated algorithms. In this position paper we present some ideas about data-flow architectures for processing visual information. Selective Change Driven (SCD) is based on a CMOS sensor which delivers, ordered by the absolute magnitude of its change, only the pixels that have changed after the last time they were read-out. As a natural step, a processing architecture based on processing pixels in a data-flow method, instead of processing complete frames, is presented. A data-flow FPGA-based architecture is appointed in developing such concepts.

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Boluda J., Zuccarello P., Pardo F. and Vegara F. (2012). On the Design of Change-driven Data-flow Algorithms and Architectures for High-speed Motion Analysis . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-21-1, pages 548-553. DOI: 10.5220/0004120805480553


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco12,
author={Jose A. Boluda and Pedro Zuccarello and Fernando Pardo and Francisco Vegara},
title={On the Design of Change-driven Data-flow Algorithms and Architectures for High-speed Motion Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2012},
pages={548-553},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004120805480553},
isbn={978-989-8565-21-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - On the Design of Change-driven Data-flow Algorithms and Architectures for High-speed Motion Analysis
SN - 978-989-8565-21-1
AU - Boluda J.
AU - Zuccarello P.
AU - Pardo F.
AU - Vegara F.
PY - 2012
SP - 548
EP - 553
DO - 10.5220/0004120805480553