Abstract

Real-time image processing has come of age in numerous industrial and military applications. Now is the opportune moment to define architectures which can yield low cost generic VLSI building blocks spanning the various algorithm and system requirements. In this paper, we summarize typical sensor formats and algorithms to identify common data flow and computational structures required for their real-time VLSI implementation. A set of criteria for evaluating architectures for VLSI is developed and used to examine several representative architectures. Recommendations for common VLSI building blocks are made for the representative architectures.

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