Title :
Configurable computing solutions for automatic target recognition
Author :
Villasenor, John ; Schoner, Brian ; Chia, Kang-Ngee ; Zapata, Charles ; Kim, Hea Joung ; Jones, Chris ; Lansing, Shane ; Mangione-Smith, Bill
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
FPGAs can be used to build systems for automatic target recognition (ATR) that achieve an order of magnitude increase in performance over systems built using general purpose processors. This improvement is possible because the bit-level operations that comprise much of the ATR computational burden map extremely efficiently into FPGAs, and because the specificity of ATR target templates can be leveraged via fast reconfiguration. We describe here algorithms, design tools, and implementation strategies that are being used in a configurable computing system for ATR
Keywords :
computer vision; field programmable gate arrays; object recognition; reconfigurable architectures; ATR target templates; FPGAs; automatic target recognition; bit-level operations; configurable computing solutions; design tools; implementation strategies; Field programmable gate arrays;
Conference_Titel :
FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 1996. Proceedings. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Napa Valley, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7548-9
DOI :
10.1109/FPGA.1996.564749
