Design of belief propagation based on FPGA for the multistereo CAFADIS camera

In this paper we describe a fast, specialized hardware implementation of the belief propagation algorithm for the CAFADIS camera, a new plenoptic sensor patented by the University of La Laguna. This camera captures the lightfield of the scene and can be used to find out at which depth each pixel is in focus. The algorithm has been designed for FPGA devices using VHDL. We propose a parallel and pipeline architecture to implement the algorithm without external memory. Although the BRAM resources of the device increase considerably, we can maintain real-time restrictions by using extremely high-performance signal processing capability through parallelism and by accessing several memories simultaneously. The quantifying results with 16 bit precision have shown that performances are really close to the original Matlab programmed algorithm.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 10(2010), 10 vom: 28., Seite 9194-210

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Magdaleno, Eduardo [VerfasserIn]
Lüke, Jonás Philipp [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez-Ramos, José Manuel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Depth estimation
FPGA
Journal Article
Multistereo
Plenoptic sensors
Real-time processing
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 15.08.2012

Date Revised 21.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s101009194

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM213795019