An FPGA-based Parallel Hardware Architecture for Real-time Eye Detection
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- Title
- An FPGA-based Parallel Hardware Architecture for Real-time Eye Detection
- Authors
- Kim, D; Junhee Jung; Thuy Tuong Nguyen; Kim, D; Munsang Kim; Key Ho Kwon; Jae Wook Jeon
- Date Issued
- 2012-06
- Publisher
- Springer
- Abstract
- Eye detection is widely used in applications, such as face recognition, driver behavior analysis, and human-computer interaction. However, it is difficult to achieve real-time performance with software-based eye detection in an embedded environment. In this paper, we propose a parallel hardware architecture for real-time eye detection. We use the AdaBoost algorithm with modified census transform(MCT) to detect eyes on a face image. We parallelize part of the algorithm to speed up processing. Several downscaled pyramid images of the eye candidate region are generated in parallel using the input face image. We can detect the left and the right eye simultaneously using these downscaled images. The sequential data processing bottleneck caused by repetitive operation is removed by employing a pipelined parallel architecture. The proposed architecture is designed using Verilog HDL and implemented on a Virtex-5 FPGA for prototyping and evaluation. The proposed system can detect eyes within 0.15 ms in a VGA image.
- Keywords
- Eye detection; hardware architecture; FPGA; image processing; HDL; DEFORMABLE TEMPLATES; FEATURE-EXTRACTION; FACE DETECTION; TRACKING
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/15789
- DOI
- 10.5573/JSTS.2012.12.2.150
- ISSN
- 1598-1657
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science, vol. 12, no. 2, page. 150 - 161, 2012-06
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