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    Arquiteturas de hardware para aceleração de algoritmos de reconstrução morfológica

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    Este trabalho apresenta um estudo da implementação de algoritmos para a reconstrução morfológica de imagens bio-medicas em FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). As arquiteturas foram baseadas nos algoritmos Sequential Reconstruction (SR) e Fast Hybrid (FH) usando linguagem de descrição de hardware VHDL (Very High Description Language). A metodologia para avaliar a plataforma consistiu em verificar a arquitetura projetada no QuestaSim, fornecendo como dados de entrada as imagens a ser reconstruídas. Adicionalmente, a validação dos resultados da arquitetura foi feita usando linguagem C ou Matlab (usando a função imreconstruct). Além disso, um estudo consumo de recursos de hardware para diferentes tamanhos e conteúdos de imagens foram realizados com o intuito de verificar a aplicabilidade dos algoritmos em arquiteturas reconfiguráveis. Neste trabalho, para a aceleração do processo de reconstrução da imagem foi proposta uma arquitetura reconfigurável baseada no algoritmo FH junto com um algoritmo de aprendizagem de máquina, especificamente uma máquina de vetores de suporte (SVM). Para o treinamento da SVM foi usada uma metodologia de verificação/validação obtendo aproximadamente 20.000 dados de treinamento. Finalmente, foi implementada uma arquitetura que particiona a imagem original em quatro unidades de processamento, processando cada unidade em paralelo. O sistema final implementado fornece um pixel processado por cada ciclo de relógio, depois de um tempo de latência, sendo aproximadamente 8 vezes mais rápida que sua versão não particionada. Adicionalmente, foram feitas comparações rodando os algoritmos de reconstrução morfológica em um processador ARM embarcado dentro do FPGA.Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).This work presents a study of the implementation of algorithms for the morphological reconstruction of bio-medical images in FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). The architectures were based on Sequential Reconstruction (SR) algorithms and Fast Hybrid (FH), using VHDL (Very High Description Language). The methodology for the evaluation of the platform consisted of verifying the architecture designed in QuestaSim, providing the images to be reconstructed as input data. Additionally, the validation of the results of the architecture was made using C or Matlab languages (using the imreconstruct function). Additionally, a study of hardware resource consumption for different sizes and content of images was conducted, in order to verify the applicability of the algorithms in reconfigurable architectures. In this work, in order to accelerate the image reconstruction process, a reconfigurable architecture based on the FH algorithm is proposed together with machine learning, specifically a support vector machine (SVM). For the SVM training a verification/validation methodology was used, obtaining approximately 20,000 training data. Finally, an architecture was implemented that partitions the original image in four processing units, processing each unit in parallel. The final system implemented provides one pixel processed for each clock cycle, after a latency time, being approximately 8 times faster than its unpartitioned version. Lastly, comparisons were made by running the morphological reconstruction algorithms in an ARM processor embedded within the FPGA

    Morphological co-processing unit for embedded devices

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    This paper focuses on the development of a fully programmable morphological coprocessor for embedded devices. It is a well-known fact that the majority of morphological processing operations are composed of a (potentially large) number of sequential elementary operators. At the same time, the industrial context induces a high demand on robustness and decision liability that makes the application even more demanding. Recent stationary platforms (PC, GPU, clusters) no more represent a computational bottleneck in real-time vision or image processing applications. However, in embedded solutions such applications still hit computational limits. The morphological co-processing unit (MCPU) replies to this demand. It assembles the previously published efficient dilation/erosion units with geodesic units and ALUs to support a larger collection of morphological operations, from a simple dilation to serial filters involving a geodesic reconstruction step. The coprocessor has been integrated into an FPGA platform running a server that is able to respond to client’s requests over the ethernet. The experimental performance of the MCPU measured on a wide set of operations brings as results in orders of magnitude better than another embedded platform, built around an ARM A9 quad-core processor
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