Architecture of a Stereo Matching VLSI Processor Based on Hierarchically Parallel Memory Access

Masanori HARIYAMA
Haruka SASAKI
Michitaka KAMEYAMA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E88-D    No.7    pp.1486-1491
Publication Date: 2005/07/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.7.1486
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Recent Advances in Circuits and Systems--Part 1)
Category: Digital Circuits and Computer Arithmetic
Keyword: 
stereo vision,  SAD (sum of absolute differences),  memory allocation,  logic-in-memory architecture,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents a VLSI processor for high-speed and reliable stereo matching based on adaptive window-size control of SAD(Sum of Absolute Differences) computation. To reduce its computational complexity, SADs are computed using multi-resolution images. Parallel memory access is essential for highly parallel image processing. For parallel memory access, this paper also presents an optimal memory allocation that minimizes the hardware amount under the condition of parallel memory access at specified resolutions.


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