Real-time optical flow calculations on FPGA and GPU architectures: A comparison study

Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-182

  Chase, Jeff ^a   Nelson, Brent ^a   Bodily, John ^a   Wei, Zhaoyi ^a   Lee, Dah Jye ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRAIN RECONFIGURABLE ARRAYS; COMPARISON STUDIES; COMPUTING DEVICES; CUSTOM COMPUTING; DATA RATES; DEVELOPMENT TIME; DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS; FLOW CALCULATIONS; FPGA DEVICES; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITS; HIGH-SPEED; MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS; OPTICAL FLOW ALGORITHMS; PROGRAMMABLE PROCESSORS; REAL-TIME COMPUTING; ROBOTIC VISIONS;

APPLICATIONS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MIM DEVICES; OPTICAL FLOWS;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 60349107125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FCCM.2008.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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