A CMOS imager with on-chip processing for image enhancement and edge detection
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
IEEE
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Engineering and Mathematics
RAS ID
805
Abstract
In this paper a CMOS vision chip featuring real-time on-chip image processing capabilities is presented. A sensor array, an analogue read-out processor and a digital image processor have been integrated on a single chip. The prototype can perform dynamic-range compression, noise filtering, edge detection and image enhancement. To achieve high-speed real-time processing, an efficient VLSI implementation based on a mixed-mode analogue-digital strategy is proposed. The proposed approach also leads to a very compact VLSI implementation of the analogue processing parts, allowing for 75% of the silicon area to be fully dedicated to the 58 × 58-pixel array.
Comments
Bermak, A., Boussaid, F., & Bouzerdoum, A. (2001). A CMOS imager with on-chip processing for image enhancement and edge detection. Canadian journal of electrical and computer engineering, 26, 153. Available here