An evaluation of the suitability of FPGAs for embedded vision systems

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005

Volumn 2005-January, Issue , 2005, Pages

  MacLean, W James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; DEDICATED HARDWARE; DIGITAL SIGNALS; EMBEDDED VISIONS; FPGA TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION; MODES OF OPERATION;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 84880800715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cvpr.2005.408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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