A Video Elaboration System for Image Deinterlacing and Processing in Race Cars

Abstract

Today, video cameras are a very common way to gather data from physical processes also thanks to the technological evolution, seen both for the acquisition devices and the visualization/elaboration ones, which brought high quality at low costs. The video world, unfortunately, still suffers from the legacies of the early analog video era, so that engineers often have to deal with artifacts whose presence is only related to the will of remaining compatible with such old video technologies, among which the interlacement is certainly one of the most problematic ones. In this letter, we will present a work, in collaboration with the Magneti Marelli Motorsport division, aimed at developing a video acquisition system to be installed on F1 race cars for tire or wing monitoring, together with a low-cost field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based video deinterlacer, which would allow them to use analog cameras whenever they are unable to use a digital one.