Title
Hough Transform Implementation For Event-Based Systems: Concepts and Challenges.
Abstract
Hough transform (HT) is one of the most well-known techniques in computer vision that has been the basis of many practical image processing algorithms. HT however is designed to work for frame-based systems such as conventional digital cameras. Recently, event-based systems such as Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) cameras, has become popular among researchers. Event-based cameras have a significantly high temporal resolution (1 mu s), but each pixel can only detect change and not color. As such, the conventional image processing algorithms cannot be readily applied to event-based output streams. Therefore, it is necessary to adapt the conventional image processing algorithms for event-based cameras. This paper provides a systematic explanation, starting from extending conventional HT to 3D HT, adaptation to event-based systems, and the implementation of the 3D HT using Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). Using SNN enables the proposed solution to be easily realized on hardware using FPGA, without requiring CPU or additional memory. In addition, we also discuss techniques for optimal SNN-based implementation using efficient number of neurons for the required accuracy and resolution along each dimension, without increasing the overall computational complexity. We hope that this will help to reduce the gap between event-based and frame-based systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3389/fncom.2018.00103
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hough Transform (HT),dynamic vision sensor (DVS),parameter space,spiking neural network (SNN),inhibitory connections,event-based video,line segment detection (LSD),generalized Hough transform (GHT)
Computer vision,Computer science,Hough transform,Field-programmable gate array,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Spiking neural network,Digital image processing,Vision sensor,Temporal resolution,Machine learning,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
12
1662-5188
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
53
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sajjad Seifozzakerini110.37
Wei-Yun Yau2123398.01
K. Z. Mao384874.71
Hossein Nejati4325.29