Coarse-grained reconfigurable image stream processor architecture for high-definition cameras and camcorders

Author

Cheng, Teng-Yuan ; Chen, Tsung-Huang ; Chen, J.C. ; Chien, Shao-Yi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

22-23 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

98

Abstract

The coarse-grained reconfigurable image stream processor (CRISP) architecture is introduced for the image processing demands of high-definition (HD) cameras and camcorders. With several architectural concepts of the reconfigurable architecture, the CRISP architecture is proposed to meet the performance and flexibility requirements of the HD cameras. A multi-frame processing system with CRISP is implemented to achieve the real-time HD video recording and 11M-pixel image processing capability. Compared with the performance of the high-dynamic-range image fusion algorithm implemented with a general-purpose processor, 106 times speed-up is achieved by the proposed processor with high image quality of 42.5dB in PSNR.

Keywords

cameras; image fusion; microprocessor chips; reconfigurable architectures; camcorder; coarse grained reconfigurable image stream processor; high definition cameras; image fusion algorithm; multi frame processing system; Computer architecture; Hardware; Image processing; Pipelines; Pixel; Registers; Streaming media; CRISP; coarse-grained; reconfigurable; stream processor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2010 International

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8633-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOCDC.2010.5682963

Filename

5682963