Title
A High Speed VLSI Architecture for Handwriting Recognition
Abstract
This article presents PAPRICA-3, a VLSI-oriented architecture for real-time processing of images and its implementation on HACRE, a high-speed, cascadable, 32-processors VLSI slice. The architecture is based on an array of programmable processing elements with the instruction set tailored to image processing, mathematical morphology, and neural networks emulation. Dedicated hardware features allow simultaneous image acquisition, processing, neural network emulation, and a straightforward interface with a hosting PC.HACRE has been fabricated and successfully tested at a clock frequency of 50 MHz. A board hosting up to four chips and providing a 33 MHz PCI interface has been manufactured and used to build BEATR IX, a system for the recognition of handwritten check amounts, by integrating image processing and neural network algorithms (on the board) with context analysis techniques (on the hosting PC).
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1023/A:1011173726562
VLSI Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
image processing,parallel architectures,handwriting recognition,artificial neural networks,VLSI implementations
Instruction set,Computer science,Parallel computing,Image processing,Handwriting recognition,Emulation,Artificial neural network,Computer hardware,Digital image processing,Very-large-scale integration,Clock rate
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
3
0922-5773
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Gregoretti113119.70
Roberto Passerone285571.43
Leonardo Maria Reyneri315434.66
Claudio Sansoè46415.86