• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2008

A real-time three-dimensional vision is a passive system, which would support various applications including collision avoidance, home networks. It is a good alternative of active systems, which are subject to interference in noisy environments. In this paper, we designed a SAD correlator with respect to resource usage for a real-time three-dimensional vision system. Regular structures, linear data flow and abundant parallelism make the correlation algorithm a good candidate for a reconfigurable hardware. We implemented two versions of SAD correlator in HDL and synthesized them to determine resource requirements and performance. From the experiment we show that the SAD correlator fits into reconfigurable hardware in marginal cost and can handle about 30 frames/sec with $640{\times}480$ images.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.703-706
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 스테레오 비전 알고리즘을 ARM9 프로세서를 사용하는 SoC의 IP 개념으로 구현하였다. 구현하고자 하는 스테레오 비전 시스템을 기능에 따라서 하드웨어와 소프트웨어 모듈로 나누어서 성능을 최대화할 수 있도록 설계하였다. SAD correlator는 한 쌍의 이미지에 많은 계산을 필요로 하기 때문에 성능을 우선시하여 하드웨어로 구성하였고, 소프트웨어는 프로세서를 초기화 시키고, 인터럽트 처리와 SAD correlator, TFT-LCD controller, 메모리 등의 하드웨어를 제어하는 역할을 하는 firmware로 구성을 하였다. 메모리에 기저장된 영상정보를 스테레오 비전 알고리즘을 이용한 결과를 외부 TFT-LCD 모듈에서 필요로 하는 포맷에 맞게 변환시켜서 depth map을 출력하는 시스템을 ARM922T 프로세서가 내장된 Altera Excalibur를 target으로 설계하여 테스트 보드에서 정상적으로 동작하는 것을 확인하였다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.212-218
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• 2012

A stereo vision is able to build three-dimensional maps of its environment. It can provide much more complete information than a 2D image based vision but has to process, at least, that much more data. In the past decade, real-time stereo has become a reality. Some solutions are based on reconfigurable hardware and others rely on specialized hardware. However, they are designed for their own specific applications and are difficult to extend their functionalities. This paper describes a vision system based on a System on a Chip (SoC) platform. A real-time stereo image correlator is implemented using Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD) algorithm and is integrated into the vision system using AMBA bus protocol. Since the system is designed on a pre-verified platform it can be easily extended in its functionality increasing design productivity. Simulation results show that the vision system is suitable for various real-time applications.