High-speed parameterisable Hough transform using reconfigurable hardware

  • Authors:
  • Dixon D. S. Deng;Hossam ElGindy

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Anzac Parade, Kensington 2033 NSW;School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Anzac Parade, Kensington 2033 NSW

  • Venue:
  • VIP '01 Proceedings of the Pan-Sydney area workshop on Visual information processing - Volume 11
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Recent developments in reconfigurable hardware technologies have offered high-density high-speed devices with the ability for custom computing whilst maintaining the flexibility of a software solution. These features are well suited to image processing algorithms that are computationally intensive and repetitive in nature. Very deep pipelining and parallelism, features often required for real time image analysis can be achieved easily using hardware design. The Hough Transform is a powerful and robust global image processing tool for feature recognition and detection. The CORDIC algorithm uses simple shift and addition operations to implement complex trigonometric functions. This paper combines the application of the novel CORDIC algorithm to the Hough Transform and reconfigurable technology to propose a parameterisable Hough Transform with real-time processing throughput.