Title :
FEMIP: A high performance FPGA-based features extractor & matcher for space applications
Author :
Di Carlo, S. ; Gambardella, Giulio ; Prinetto, P. ; Rolfo, Daniele ; Trotta, Pascal ; Lanza, Piegiorgio
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Autom. e Inf., Politec. di Torino, Turin, Italy
Abstract :
Nowadays, Video-Based Navigation (VBN) is increasingly used in space-applications. The future space-missions will include this approach during the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) phase, in order to increase the landing point precision. This paper presents FEMIP: a high performance FPGA-based features extractor and matcher tuned for space applications. It outperforms the current state-of-the-art, ensuring a higher throughput and a lower hardware resources usage.
Keywords :
feature extraction; field programmable gate arrays; motion estimation; FEMIP; FPGA; features extractor; features matcher; landing point precision; space-missions; video-based navigation; Buffer storage; Computer architecture; Correlation; Feature extraction; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Kernel;
Conference_Titel :
Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2013 23rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Porto
DOI :
10.1109/FPL.2013.6645606
