Title
Hardware-Efficient Design of Real-Time Profile Shape Matching Stereo Vision Algorithm on FPGA.
Abstract
A variety of platforms, such as micro-unmanned vehicles, are limited in the amount of computational hardware they can support due to weight and power constraints. An efficient stereo vision algorithm implemented on an FPGA would be able to minimize payload and power consumption in microunmanned vehicles, while providing 3D information and still leaving computational resources available for other processing tasks. This work presents a hardware design of the efficient profile shape matching stereo vision algorithm. Hardware resource usage is presented for the targeted micro-UV platform, Helio-copter, that uses the Xilinx Virtex 4 FX60 FPGA. Less than a fifth of the resources on this FGPA were used to produce dense disparity maps for image sizes up to 450 × 375, with the ability to scale up easily by increasing BRAM usage. A comparison is given of accuracy, speed performance, and resource usage of a census transform-based stereo vision FPGA implementation by Jin et al. Results show that the profile shape matching algorithm is an efficient real-time stereo vision algorithm for hardware implementation for resource limited systems such as microunmanned vehicles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1155/2014/945926
Int. J. Reconfig. Comp.
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Stereopsis,Field-programmable gate array,Algorithm,Real-time computing,Census transform,Virtex,Computer hardware,Time profile,Blossom algorithm,Power consumption,Payload
Journal
2014
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
Issue-in-Progress
5
0.41
References 
Authors
28
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Beau J. Tippetts11127.62
Dah-Jye Lee242242.05
Kirt D. Lillywhite3354.75
James K. Archibald4632161.01