Hardware/software co-design for image cross-correlation

Abstract

Cross-correlation is an important image processing algorithm for template matching widely used on computer vision based systems. This work follows a profile-based hardware/software co-design method to develop an architecture for normalized cross-correlation coefficient calculus using Nios II soft-processor. Results present comparisons between general purpose processor implementation and different customized softprocessor implementation considering execution time and the influence of image and sub-image size. Nios II soft-processors configured with floating-point hardware acceleration achieved a 8.31 speedup. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.