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OpenCL-based FPGA accelerator for disparity map generation with stereoscopic event cameras

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019-03-11 v1

Abstract

Although event-based cameras are already commercially available. Vision algorithms based on them are still not common. As a consequence, there are few Hardware Accelerators for them. In this work we present some experiments to create FPGA accelerators for a well-known vision algorithm using event-based cameras. We present a stereo matching algorithm to create a stream of disparity events disparity map and implement several accelerators using the Intel FPGA OpenCL tool-chain. The results show that multiple designs can be easily tested and that a performance speedup of more than 8x can be achieved with simple code transformations.

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@article{arxiv.1903.03509,
  title  = {OpenCL-based FPGA accelerator for disparity map generation with stereoscopic event cameras},
  author = {David Castells-Rufas and Jordi Carrabina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03509},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Presented at HIP3ES, 2019

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