The paper presents a SIMD architecture to determine centroids of objects in binary and gray-scale images applying the Marching Pixels paradigm. The introduced algorithm has emergent and self- organizing properties. A short mathematic derivation of the system behavior is given. We show that a behavior describing the computation of object centroids in gray-scale images is easily derived from those of the binary case. After the architecture of a single calculation unit has been described we address a hierarchical three-step design strategy to generate the full ASIC layout, which is able to analyze binary images with a resolution of 64×64 pixels. Finally the latencies to determine the object centroids are compared with those of a software solution running on a common medium performance DSP platform. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Loos, A., Reichenbach, M., & Fey, D. (2011). ASIC architecture to determine object centroids from gray-scale images using marching pixels. In Communications in Computer and Information Science (Vol. 154 CCIS, pp. 234–249). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21153-9_22
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