Real Time Sobel Edge Detection Based on Reconfigurable Computing

Abstract

Edge detection is a fundamental operation in many image and video processing applications. It is used in various fields like industries, aerospace, surveillance, medical fields, traffic monitoring system, lane detection, driverless vehicles, crack detection in roads and several other applications. Most of the edge detection algorithms are software based but in real time applications these are not efficient hence in this paper we have explored about Hardware platform. The reason for selecting Sobel edge detection operator is it incorporates both the edge detection and a smoothing operator to provide good edge detection capability in noisy environment. This design uses Verilog HDL language for design and Vivado is used for simulation.