This paper presents a design adapting the Kalman Filter to the vehicle system domain and Field Programmable Logic technology. The objective to which the system will be applied is detection of road lines from visual information, derived from a low cost monochrome camera with real time response requirements and good results for real scenarios (secondary roads, rain, damaged or occluded road lines..).
The sections will describe how the original algorithm is mapped to a real time hardware vision system, that includes a low-cost FPGA processing system and a camera, for vehicle applications. The paper will also illustrate how the needed tasks have been implemented on the FPGA, with the logical architectural restrictions. It mentions also the ways in which overall performance will be increased.
A FPGA based hardware implementation of the Santos-Victor optical
flow algorithm, useful in robot guidance applications, is described in this paper. The system used to do contains an ALTERA FPGA (20K100), an interface with a digital camera, three VRAM memories to contain the data input and some output memories (a VRAM and a EDO) to contain the results. The system have been used previously to develop and test other vision algorithms, such as image compression, optical flow calculation with differential and correlation methods. The designed system let connect the digital camera, or the FPGA
output (results of algorithms) to a PC, throw its Firewire or USB port. The problems take place in this occasion have motivated to adopt another hardware structure for certain vision algorithms with special requirements, that need a very hard code intensive processing.
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