Efficient implementation of Sobel edge detection algorithm on CPU, GPU and FPGA. (18th April 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chouchene, Marwa; Sayadi, Fatma Ezahra; Said, Yahia; Atri, Mohamed; Tourki, Rached
• Is Part Of: International journal of advanced media and communication. Volume 5:Number 2/3(2013)
• Page Start: 105
• Page End: 117
• Publication Date: 2014-04-18
• Subjects: image processing -- Sobel filter -- parallel implementation -- FPGA -- field programmable gate arrays -- GPU -- graphic processor units -- CUDA programmation -- Sobel edge detection -- CPU; Multimedia communications -- Periodicals; Multimedia systems -- Periodicals; 384.38
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1462-4613

Abstract

Many applications in image processing have high degrees of inherent parallelism and are thus good candidates for parallel implementation. In fact, programming tools for field programmable gate array (FPGA), SIMD instructions on CPU and a large number of cores on graphic processor unit (GPU) have been developed, but it is still difficult to achieve high performance on these platforms. This paper analyses the distinct features of compute unified device architecture (CUDA) GPU and summarises the general program mode of CUDA. Furthermore, we present three different implementations of Sobel edge detection on CPU, FPGA and GPU. Tested image data are also used in these hardware platforms to compare computational efficiency of CPU, GPU and FPGA.