Local image phase, energy and orientation extraction using FPGAs

International Journal of Electronics

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 743-760

  Diaz J ^a   Ros, E ^a   Mota, S ^b   Carrillo, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fixed point arithmetic; Local image phase; Orientation and energy; Quadrature filters; Real time image processing

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; FILTER BANKS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOTION ESTIMATION; WAVE FILTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; COMPUTER VISION APPLICATIONS; DEPTH COMPUTATION; DIFFERENT SCALES; FIXED POINT ARITHMETIC; GAUSSIAN DERIVATIVES; HARDWARE FRIENDLY; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE; LOCAL FEATURES; LOCAL IMAGE PHASE; ON CHIPS; ORIENTATION AND ENERGY; ORIENTATION INFORMATION; ORIENTED FILTER; QUADRATURE FILTERS; REAL-TIME DOMAINS; REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING; REAL-TIME PROCESSING; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; STEERABLE FILTERS; SYSTEM RESOURCES; TEXTURE-ANALYSIS; WAVELET IMAGE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 49149098955     PISSN: 00207217     EISSN: 13623060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207210801941200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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