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A Biological Retina Inspired Tone Mapping Processor for High-Speed and Energy-Efficient Image Enhancement
Xiaoqiang Xiang1, Lili Liu1, Luying Que1
1School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, Sichuan, China.
Abstract:
In this work, a biological retina inspired tone mapping processor for high-speed and energy-efficient image enhancement has been proposed. To achieve high throughput and high energy efficiency, several hardware design techniques have been proposed, including data partition based parallel processing with S-shape sliding, adjacent frame feature sharing, multi-layer convolution pipelining, and convolution filter compression with zero skipping convolution. Implemented on a Xilinx's Virtex7 FPGA, the proposed design achieves a high throughput of 189 frames per second for 1024 × 768 RGB images while consuming 819 mW. Compared with several state-of-the-art tone mapping processors, the proposed design shows higher throughput and energy efficiency. It is suitable for high-speed and energy-constrained image enhancement applications.
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