Architectures and algorithms for image and video processing using FPGA-based platform

The work illustrates the use of platform-based design to achieve efficiently-configured hardware-software system solution that can meet the conflicting demands of high performance, low power and quick turnaround time for embedded system development. It presents embedded system design techniques using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for image and video processing application. Here, by identifying, building and integrating all necessary hardware and software components, an embedded implementation of a kernel-based mean shift (KBMS) object tracking algorithm has been proposed [1]. To fulfill the specific needs of hardware/software implementation Virtex-5 FXT FPGA device (which has an embedded PowerPC processor) available on Xilinx ML-507 platform has been used [2].