Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Preface

Background

Available Literature

Intended Audience

Outline of the Contents

Conventions Used

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Image Processing

1.1 Basic Definitions

1.2 Image Formation

1.3 Image Processing Operations

1.4 Example Application

1.5 Real-Time Image Processing

1.6 Embedded Image Processing

1.7 Serial Processing

1.8 Parallelism

1.9 Hardware Image Processing Systems

Chapter 2: Field Programmable Gate Arrays

2.1 Programmable Logic

2.2 FPGAs and Image Processing

2.3 Inside an FPGA

2.4 FPGA Families and Features

2.5 Choosing an FPGA or Development Board

Chapter 3: Languages

3.1 Hardware Description Languages

3.2 Software-Based Languages

3.3 Visual Languages

3.4 Summary

Chapter 4: Design Process

4.1 Problem Specification

4.2 Algorithm Development

4.3 Architecture Selection

4.4 System Implementation

4.5 Designing for Tuning and Debugging

Chapter 5: Mapping Techniques

5.1 Timing Constraints

5.2 Memory Bandwidth Constraints

5.3 Resource Constraints

5.4 Computational Techniques

5.5 Summary

Chapter 6: Point Operations

6.1 Point Operations on a Single Image

6.2 Point Operations on Multiple Images

6.3 Colour Image Processing

6.4 Summary

Chapter 7: Histogram Operations

7.1 Greyscale Histogram

7.2 Multidimensional Histograms

Chapter 8: Local Filters

8.1 Caching

8.2 Linear Filters

8.3 Nonlinear Filters

8.4 Rank Filters

8.5 Colour Filters

8.6 Morphological Filters

8.7 Adaptive Thresholding

8.8 Summary

Chapter 9: Geometric Transformations

9.1 Forward Mapping

9.2 Reverse Mapping

9.3 Interpolation

9.4 Mapping Optimisations

9.5 Image Registration

Chapter 10: Linear Transforms

10.1 Fourier Transform

10.2 Discrete Cosine Transform

10.3 Wavelet Transform

10.4 Image and Video Coding

Chapter 11: Blob Detection and Labelling

11.1 Bounding Box

11.2 Run-Length Coding

11.3 Chain Coding

11.4 Connected Component Labelling

11.5 Distance Transform

11.6 Watershed Transform

11.7 Hough Transform

11.8 Summary

Chapter 12: Interfacing

12.1 Camera Input

12.2 Display Output

12.3 Serial Communication

12.4 Memory

12.5 Summary

Chapter 13: Testing, Tuning and Debugging

13.1 Design

13.2 Implementation

13.3 Tuning

13.4 Timing Closure

Chapter 14: Example Applications

14.1 Coloured Region Tracking

14.2 Lens Distortion Correction

14.3 Foveal Sensor

14.4 Range Imaging

14.5 Real-Time Produce Grading

14.6 Summary

References

Color Plates

Index