Protocomputing Architecture over a Digital Medium Aiming at Real-Time Video Processing

A protocomputational architecture is presented that implements the ancient reaction-diffusion model as a microelectronic hardware. A digital medium is selected for the physical mapping of the protoarchitecture as a way to benefit from reliable advanced integrated circuits fabrication technologies. T...

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Main Authors: Aoi Tanibata, Alexandre Schmid, Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki, Masayuki Ikebe, Masato Motomura, Tetsuya Asai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Complexity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3618621
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description A protocomputational architecture is presented that implements the ancient reaction-diffusion model as a microelectronic hardware. A digital medium is selected for the physical mapping of the protoarchitecture as a way to benefit from reliable advanced integrated circuits fabrication technologies. The extraction of dense motion vector fields from textureless objects in a video sequence is selected as a realistic application. Real-time video processing results at 30 fps are achieved using an FPGA physical implementation of the proposed protoarchitecture.
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spelling doaj-art-b275dcd2ba4a4e9087e096947219fa4b2025-02-03T01:00:27ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262018-01-01201810.1155/2018/36186213618621Protocomputing Architecture over a Digital Medium Aiming at Real-Time Video ProcessingAoi Tanibata0Alexandre Schmid1Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki2Masayuki Ikebe3Masato Motomura4Tetsuya Asai5Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (IST), Hokkaido University, Kita 14, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, JapanMicroelectronic Systems Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, SwitzerlandGraduate School of Information Science and Technology (IST), Hokkaido University, Kita 14, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, JapanGraduate School of Information Science and Technology (IST), Hokkaido University, Kita 14, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, JapanGraduate School of Information Science and Technology (IST), Hokkaido University, Kita 14, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, JapanGraduate School of Information Science and Technology (IST), Hokkaido University, Kita 14, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, JapanA protocomputational architecture is presented that implements the ancient reaction-diffusion model as a microelectronic hardware. A digital medium is selected for the physical mapping of the protoarchitecture as a way to benefit from reliable advanced integrated circuits fabrication technologies. The extraction of dense motion vector fields from textureless objects in a video sequence is selected as a realistic application. Real-time video processing results at 30 fps are achieved using an FPGA physical implementation of the proposed protoarchitecture.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3618621
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