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A Multi-Core Object Detection Coprocessor for Multi-Scale/Type Classification Applicable to IoT Devices
Peng Xu1, Zhihua Xiao1, Xianglong Wang1
1School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
Abstract:
Power efficiency is becoming a critical aspect of IoT devices. In this paper, we present a compact object-detection coprocessor with multiple cores for multi-scale/type classification. This coprocessor is capable to process scalable block size for multi-shape detection-window and can be compatible with the frame-image sizes up to 2048 × 2048 for multi-scale classification. A memory-reuse strategy that requires only one dual-port SRAM for storing the feature-vector of one-row blocks is developed to save memory usage. Eventually, a prototype platform is implemented on the Intel DE4 development board with the Stratix IV device. The power consumption of each core in FPGA is only 80.98 mW.
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