In embedded vision systems, parallel computation of the integral image presents several design challenges in terms of hardware resources, speed and power consumption. Although recursive equations significantly reduce the number of operations for computing the integral image, the required internal memory becomes prohibitively large for an embedded integral image computation engine for increasing image sizes. With the objective of achieving high-throughput with minimum hardware resources, this paper proposes a memory-efficient design strategy for a parallel embedded integral image computation engine. Results show that the design achieves nearly 35% reduction in memory for common HD video.
@article{arxiv.1510.05142,
title = {Memory-Efficient Design Strategy for a Parallel Embedded Integral Image Computation Engine},
author = {Shoaib Ehsan and Adrian F. Clark and Wah M. Cheung and Arjunsingh M. Bais and Bayar I. Menzat and Nadia Kanwal and Klaus D. McDonald-Maier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05142},
year = {2015}
}
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Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP), 2011