Hardware acceleration of lucky-region fusion (LRF) algorithm for imaging

Christopher R. Jackson; Garrett A. Ejzak; Mathieu Aubailly; Gary W. Carhart; J. Jiang Liu; Fouad Kiamilev

doi:10.1117/12.2053898

24 June 2014 Hardware acceleration of lucky-region fusion (LRF) algorithm for imaging

Christopher R. Jackson, Garrett A. Ejzak, Mathieu Aubailly, Gary W. Carhart, J. Jiang Liu, Fouad Kiamilev

Proceedings Volume 9070, Infrared Technology and Applications XL; 90703C (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2053898
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2014, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

“Lucky-region” fusion (LRF) is a synthetic imaging technique that has proven successful in enhancing the quality of images distorted by atmospheric turbulence. The LRF algorithm extracts sharp regions of an image obtained from a series of short exposure frames, and fuses the sharp regions into a final, improved image. In our previous research, the LRF algorithm had been implemented on a PC using the C programming language. However, the PC did not have sufficient processing power to handle real-time extraction, processing and reduction required when the LRF algorithm was applied to real-time video from fast, high-resolution image sensors rather than single picture images. This document describes a hardware implementation of the LRF algorithm on a VIRTEX-7 field programmable gate array (FPGA) to achieve real-time image processing. The novelty in our approach is the creation of a “black box” LRF video processing system with a general camera link input, a user controller interface, and a camera link or DVI video output. We also describe a custom hardware simulation environment we have built to test our LRF implementation.

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Christopher R. Jackson, Garrett A. Ejzak, Mathieu Aubailly, Gary W. Carhart, J. Jiang Liu, and Fouad Kiamilev "Hardware acceleration of lucky-region fusion (LRF) algorithm for imaging", Proc. SPIE 9070, Infrared Technology and Applications XL, 90703C (24 June 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2053898

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