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A Computer Vision-Based Driver Assistance System for Implementation on Reconfigurable Hardware

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International Journal of Latest Research in Science and Technology Vol.3 Issue 1, pp 1-8,Year 2014

A COMPUTER VISION-BASED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTATION ON RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE

Ricardo Acevedo, Miguel Gonzalez,Andres Garcia

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Received : 12 February 2014; Accepted : 19 February 2014 ; Published : 28 February 2014

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This paper presents the design of a driver assistance system based on computer vision that provides information about the environment and the vehicle’s current driving state. The system has been developed to be implemented on an embedded computation platform. Physical limitations such as memory and computing power are a major concern; this renders existing image processing algorithms based on PC platforms unsuitable for direct use in this application. Instead, simplified and efficient image processing algorithms must first be developed for deployment on a reconfigurable architecture. The driver assistance system provides three main functionalities: Lane Detection, Lane-Change Detection and Obstacle Detection. The core algorithms have been realized as custom hardware co-processors to be executed on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware, a soft-core CPU performs general system control and final decision making based on co-processor output.

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Embedded System Design; Image Processing; Hardware Development; Embedded Computer

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Ricardo Acevedo, Miguel Gonzalez,Andres Garcia , " A Computer Vision-based Driver Assistance System For Implementation On Reconfigurable Hardware ", International Journal of Latest Research in Science and Technology . Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp 1-8 , 2014

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