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A flexible mixed-signal image processing pipeline using 3D chip stacks
- Source :
- Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. 14:517-534
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- This work presents a highly flexible mixed-signal CMOS image sensor suitable for smart camera applications. These systems need to fit different constraints regarding power consumption, speed and quality, and the optimal compromise may differ depending on the application. Moreover, the best implementation of a desired image processing task may be in the analog or the digital domain, or even a combined computation. Different aspects starting from the image sensor and signal acquisition up to the pre-processing in analog and digital domain are investigated in this paper to optimize not just one part of the system, but the whole system altogether. Moreover, it is shown that analog processing algorithms can improve signal quality, processing speed and latency while being able to save power, which is important for real-time systems. In order to be able to carry out spatial operations, the state-of-the-art sensor is modified to be able to read out multiple pixels at the same time. This allows analog spatial filter operations which consume significantly less power. As an example, an averaging filter is described which needs less than 5.3 % of the power–time product of a digital implementation for one computation. To enhance data throughput and flexibility, 3D chip stacking is proposed to partition the sensor in smaller units and enable massively parallel processing.
- Subjects :
- Computer science
020208 electrical & electronic engineering
010401 analytical chemistry
Real-time computing
Image processing
Mixed-signal integrated circuit
02 engineering and technology
Analog image processing
Filter (signal processing)
Analog signal processing
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
Digital image processing
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Smart camera
Image sensor
Information Systems
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Details
- ISSN :
- 18618219 and 18618200
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a1cc96d043698fa569378c94c00ef6ab