Recent advances in computer vision and image processing using reconfigurable hardware

摘要

This 'Special Issue on FPGAs: Case Studies in Computer Vision and Image Processing' collects high-quality state-of-the-art papers to provide a more comprehensive perspective of the great potential of FPGAs in computer vision and image processing fields. Vision has been centre of attention for researchers from the first beginnings of computing since it is the most notorious perception mechanism for human beings. The research into the emulation of the visual capability by means of computers has been developed to such an extent that, at present, vision plays a very important role in many of the application fields, from medical imaging to factory automation, passing for robotics; and it is a key discipline in the most general objective of allowing machines to understand the world.