Suitability of FPGA for computationally intensive image processing algorithms

Abstract

Modern age multimedia devices involve lot of multimedia tasks like image, video or speech processing. In order to meet the need of these complex multimedia tasks, efficient and high performance image processing systems need to be designed in a short time schedule. Existing platforms for image processing hardly serve the requirements of these realtime image processing tasks. The hardware platforms have emerged as the most viable solution for improving the performance of such image processing systems. The introduction of reconfigurable devices and system level hardware programming languages has further accelerated the hardware design of image processing systems. In this paper, we have explored the features of field programmable gate array, which improve the performance of complex image processing algorithms. Also, the results of point-based & window-based image processing algorithms implemented in MATLAB and VHDL are compared. (3 pages)