FPGA implementation of a real-time biologically inspired image enhancement algorithm

Journal of Real-Time Image Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 269-287

  Iakovidou, C ^a   Vonikakis, V ^a   Andreadis, I ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exposure correction; FPGA hardware implementation; Real time image enhancement

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PIPELINES; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ALTERA STRATIX; ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; COLOR IMAGES; COST IMPLEMENTATIONS; DATA REUSES; DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES; DYNAMIC RANGES; EXPOSURE CORRECTION; FPGA DEVICES; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; FPGA-HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION; FRAME RATES; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT ALGORITHMS; IMAGE REGIONS; INPUT DATUM; MEMORY MANAGEMENTS; REAL-TIME IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REAL-TIME VIDEOS; RECONFIGURABLE; SPATIAL OPERATIONS; TIME PROCESSING; VIDEO SIGNALS; VISUAL QUALITIES;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 54949138013     PISSN: 18618200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11554-008-0090-0     Document Type: Article

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