A Novel Vision Chip for High-Speed Target Tracking

Abstract

This paper presents a novel vision chip for high-speed target tracking. Two concise algorithms for high-speed target tracking are developed. The algorithms include some basic operations that can be used to process the real-time image information during target tracking. The vision chip is implemented that is based on the algorithms and a row-parallel architecture. A prototype chip has 64×64 pixels is fabricated by 0.35 µm complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor transistor (CMOS) process with 4.5×2.5 mm2 area. It operates at a rate of 1000 frames per second with 10 MHz chip main clock. The experiment results demonstrate that a high-speed target can be tracked in complex static background and a high-speed target among other high-speed objects can be tracked in clean background.