Acceleration method of infrared image detail enhancement on FPGA

Abstract

Among the many cockpit human-computer interaction systems of airborne, vehicle-mounted, and ship-borne platforms, the image detail enhancement technology can improve the ability of personnel to interpret infrared images, which has very important application requirements. The enhanced algorithm running on the embedded computing platform needs to have a higher processing speed and smaller time delay in meeting the needs of real-time interaction. The current infrared video sensor usually has a lower resolution, and the image detail enhancement algorithm still can achieve real-time processing performance on a homogeneous multi-core CPU processing platform. However, as the resolution of platform sensors continues to increase, image processing speed and time delay are difficult to meet application requirements. We propose a method for enhancing and accelerating infrared image details for FPGA platforms. By considering the FPGA's specific domain software and hardware computing architecture, the traditional bilateral filtering image details algorithm is accelerated using local cache and search table, so that real-time processing performance can still be achieved under the input image of the 4k resolution, while almost no additional memory access delay is added. While ensuring the processing effect, the algorithm greatly improves the processing and delay indicators to meet the application requirements of embedded equipment in specific fields such as the cockpit human-computer interaction system.

Keywords

• 加速
• 图像细节增强
• 机载
• fpga