The face detection and location system based on Zynq

The Zynq-7000 consists of two elements AP SoC Processing System (PS) and a Programmable Logic (PL) unit. The AP SoC allows the us to implement a video processing algorithm either as a software program running on the Zynq-7000 AP SoC based PS or as a hardware accelerator inside the AP SoC based PL. In this paper, we design a face location system through software/hardware co-design based on Zynq-7000. The location algorithm firstly constructs the skin model and calculates the similarity of the image data, then calculates the face boundaries based space projection and finally utilizes Xilinx high-level synthesis tool Vivado HLS (AutoESL) to achieve a hardware from the C program. Using the hardware module to realize the face location greatly improved the computing speed. The simulation results shows that the method worked well and the efficiency increased by 80%.