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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

HOG-Based Object Detection Processor Design Using ASIP Methodology

Shanlin XIAO, Tsuyoshi ISSHIKI, Dongju LI, Hiroaki KUNIEDA

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Object detection is an essential and expensive process in many computer vision systems. Standard off-the-shelf embedded processors are hard to achieve performance-power balance for implementation of object detection applications. In this work, we explore an Application Specific Instruction set Processor (ASIP) for object detection using Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) feature. Algorithm simplifications are adopted to reduce memory bandwidth requirements and mathematical complexity without losing reliability. Also, parallel histogram generation and on-the-fly Support Vector Machine (SVM) calculation architecture are employed to reduce the necessary cycle counts. The HOG algorithm on the proposed ASIP was accelerated by a factor of 63x compared to the pure software implementation. The ASIP was synthesized for a standard 90nm CMOS library, with a silicon area of 1.31mm2 and 47.8mW power consumption at a 200MHz frequency. Our object detection processor can achieve 42 frames-per-second (fps) on VGA video. The evaluation and implementation results show that the proposed ASIP is both area-efficient and power-efficient while being competitive with commercial CPUs/DSPs. Furthermore, our ASIP exhibits comparable performance even with hard-wire designs.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E100-A No.12 pp.2972-2984
Publication Date
2017/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E100.A.2972
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
VLSI Design Technology and CAD

Authors

Shanlin XIAO
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tsuyoshi ISSHIKI
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dongju LI
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hiroaki KUNIEDA
  Tokyo Institute of Technology

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