An Organic Computing architecture for visual microprocessors based on Marching Pixels

—The paper presents architecture and synthesis results for an organic computing hardware for smart CMOS camera chips. The organic behavior in the chip hardware is based on distributed and emergent functionality exploited for detection of objects and their center points given in binary images. Future real-time embedded systems used in industrial image processing have to provide reply times in the range of milliseconds. It is impossible to meet such strict requirements for megapixel resolutions with serial processing schemes in particular if multiple given objects have to be detected. Even classical parallel techniques like SIMD or MIMD approaches are not sufficient due to their dependency on more or less central control structures. To achieve more flexibility, unlimited scalability and higher performance parallel emergent architectures are necessary. We present such an approach, denoted as Marching Pixels, for future digital visual microprocessors. Marching Pixels work similar to arti...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ISCAS
• Authors: Dietmar Fey, Marcus Komann, Frank Schurz, Andreas Loos
• Keywords: ISCAS 2007, Marching Pixel, Organic Computing Hardware, Visual Microprocessors