Title
Acceleration techniques and evaluation on multi-core CPU, GPU and FPGA for image processing and super-resolution
Abstract
Super-resolution (SR) techniques constitute a key element in image applications, which need high-resolution reconstruction, while in the worst case, only a single low-resolution observation is available. SR techniques involve computationally demanding processes, and thus, researchers are currently focusing on SR performance acceleration. Aiming at improving the SR performance, the current paper builds up on the characteristics of the L-SEABI SR method to introduce parallelization techniques for GPUs and FPGAs. The proposed techniques accelerate GPU reconstruction of ultra-high definition content, by achieving three (3(times)) times faster than the real-time performance on mid-range and previous generation devices and at least nine times (9(times)) faster than the real-time performance on high-end GPUs. The FPGA design leads to a scalable architecture performing four (4(times)) times faster than the real-time on low-end Xilinx Virtex 5 devices and 69 times (69(times)) faster than the real-time on the Virtex 2000t. Moreover, we confirm the benefits of the proposed acceleration techniques by employing them on a different category of image processing algorithms: on window-based disparity functions, for which the proposed GPU technique shows an improvement over the CPU performance ranging from 14 times (14(times)) to 64 times (64(times)), while the proposed FPGA architecture provides 29(times) acceleration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11554-016-0619-6
Journal of Real-time Image Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Real-time image processing, Graphics processing unit, Field-programmable gate array, Super-resolution, Comparative power-performance evaluation
Central processing unit,Computer science,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Image processing,Real-time computing,Virtex,Acceleration,Graphics processing unit,Digital image processing,Multi-core processor
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
4
1861-8219
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.47
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georgios Georgis1144.12
George Lentaris28217.02
Dionysios I. Reisis36113.33