IMECO: A reconfigurable FPGA-based image enhancement co-processor framework

Real-Time Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 385-395

  Salcic, Z ^a   Sivaswamy, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

GLOBAL HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION (GHE); HIGH BOOST FILTER (HBF); IMAGE ENHANCEMENT COPROCESSOR (IMECO);

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0033280732     PISSN: 10072014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/rtim.1998.0134     Document Type: Article

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