Protocomputing Architecture over a Digital Medium Aiming at Real-Time Video Processing. (15th February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tanibata, Aoi; Schmid, Alexandre; Takamaeda-Yamazaki, Shinya; Ikebe, Masayuki; Motomura, Masato; Asai, Tetsuya
• Other Names: Aono Masashi Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Complexity. Volume 2018(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-02-15
• Subjects: Chaotic behavior in systems -- Periodicals; Complexity (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; 003
• DOI: 10.1155/2018/3618621
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1076-2787

Abstract

Abstract : A protocomputational architecture is presented that implements the ancient reaction-diffusion model as a microelectronic hardware. A digital medium is selected for the physical mapping of the protoarchitecture as a way to benefit from reliable advanced integrated circuits fabrication technologies. The extraction of dense motion vector fields from textureless objects in a video sequence is selected as a realistic application. Real-time video processing results at 30 fps are achieved using an FPGA physical implementation of the proposed protoarchitecture.