An improved real time superresolution FPGA system

Pramod Lakshmi Narasimha; Basavaraj Mudigoudar; Zhanfeng Yue; Pankaj Topiwala

doi:10.1117/12.818871

6 May 2009 An improved real time superresolution FPGA system

Pramod Lakshmi Narasimha, Basavaraj Mudigoudar, Zhanfeng Yue, Pankaj Topiwala

Proceedings Volume 7328, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2009; 732806 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.818871
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2009, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

In numerous computer vision applications, enhancing the quality and resolution of captured video can be critical. Acquired video is often grainy and low quality due to motion, transmission bottlenecks, etc. Postprocessing can enhance it. Superresolution greatly decreases camera jitter to deliver a smooth, stabilized, high quality video. In this paper, we extend previous work on a real-time superresolution application implemented in ASIC/FPGA hardware. A gradient based technique is used to register the frames at the sub-pixel level. Once we get the high resolution grid, we use an improved regularization technique in which the image is iteratively modified by applying back-projection to get a sharp and undistorted image. The algorithm was first tested in software and migrated to hardware, to achieve 320x240 -> 1280x960, about 30 fps, a stunning superresolution by 16X in total pixels. Various input parameters, such as size of input image, enlarging factor and the number of nearest neighbors, can be tuned conveniently by the user. We use a maximum word size of 32 bits to implement the algorithm in Matlab Simulink as well as in FPGA hardware, which gives us a fine balance between the number of bits and performance. The proposed system is robust and highly efficient. We have shown the performance improvement of the hardware superresolution over the software version (C code).

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Pramod Lakshmi Narasimha, Basavaraj Mudigoudar, Zhanfeng Yue, and Pankaj Topiwala "An improved real time superresolution FPGA system", Proc. SPIE 7328, Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2009, 732806 (6 May 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.818871

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