FPGA based accelerated orientation calculation in SIFT using luts

摘要

This paper presents a field programmable gate array (FPGA) based accelerated hardware architecture for Orientation Calculation in Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) for real time image registration. The orientation calculation part identifies the major orientations of feature points and helps in making the features invariant to rotational changes. This system is able to detect features upto 30 frames per second for an image of 320 × 256 pixels and provide a significant speedup at least one order of magnitude better than a PC based solution, with no significant increase in hardware costs.