An investigation into optical flow computation on FPGA hardware

Proceedings - IMVIP 2008, 2008 International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 176-181

  Browne, T A ^a   Condell, J V ^a   Prasad, G ^a   McGinnity, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FPGA DESIGNS; GRADIENT BASED; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURES; INTERESTING PROBLEMS; INVERSE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; LAPLACIAN; LITERATURE REVIEWS; OPTICAL FLOW COMPUTATIONS; OPTICAL FLOW ESTIMATIONS; PARALLEL DESIGNS; SIMULATION RESULTS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FLOWS;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 57849103054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMVIP.2008.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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