SmartCam: Devices for Embedded Intelligent Cameras

Abstract

The advent and subsequent popularity of low cost, low power CMOS vision sensors enables us to integrate processing logic on the camera chip itself, thereby creating so-called smart sensors. They have an on-chip SIMD data processing array controlled by an o#-chip controller. Smart sensors can execute low-level image processing routines as soon as one or more image lines are converted; they do not have to wait for the whole image. High level image processing like feature extraction and object detection and tracking can be performed with a separate powerful o#-chip processor