Video/Image processing is a fundamental issue in computer science. It is widely used for a broad range of applications, such as weather prediction, computerized tomography (CT), artificial intelligence (AI), and etc. Video-based advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) attracts great attention in recent years, which aims at helping drivers to become more concentrated when driving and giving proper warnings if any danger is insight. Typical ADAS includes lane departure warning, traffic sign detection, pedestrian detection, and etc. Both basic and advanced video/image processing technologies are deployed in video-based driver assistance system. The key requirements of driver assistance system are rapid processing time and low power consumption. We consider Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) as the most appropriate embedded platform for ADAS. Owing to the parallel architecture, an FPGA is able to perform high-speed video processing such that it could issue warnings timely and provide drivers longer time to response. Besides, the cost and power consumption of modern FPGAs, particular small size FPGAs, are considerably efficient. Compared to the CPU implementation, the FPGA video/image processing achieves about tens of times speedup for video-based driver assistance system and other applications.

Creator

• Zhao, Jin

Contributeurs

• Huang, Xinming
• Agu, Emmanuel O.
• Lai, Lifeng

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-042915-124951

Mot-clé

• video processing
• ADAS
• FPGA

Advisor

• Huang, Xinming

Committee

• Lai, Lifeng
• Agu, Emmanuel O.

Defense date

• 2015-04-28

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-04-29

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright