This two-page paper briefly describes the acceleration of an infrared automatic target recognition (IR ATR) application with an FPGA co-processor board, a Giga Operations' G900 board. The application of the IR ATR program which contains multiple rounds of computation is to locate and identify ground vehicles based on a single IR image frame. An FPGA design is developed for the first round which is the most time consuming part. The design explores parallelism at several levels. The achieved performance is reported and analyzed at the end.
Index Terms:
Automatic Target Recognition, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Reconfigurable Computing, Adaptive Computing
Citation:
Jack Jean, Xuejun Liang, Brian Drozd, Karen Tomko, "Accelerating an IR Automatic Target Recognition Application with FPGAs," fccm, pp.290, Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 1999