An Embedded Smart Camera on a Scalable Heterogeneous Multi-DSP System

  • Michael Bramberger (Autor)
  • Bernhard Rinner (Autor)
  • Helmut Schwabach (Autor)

Aktivität: Vortrag ohne Tagungsband / VorlesungPräsentation auf einer wissenschaftlichen Konferenz / Workshop

Beschreibung

A smart camera combines video sensing, high-level video processing and communication within a single embedded device. These devices a core components of novel surveillance systems. This paper reports on a heterogeneous smart camera targeting traffic surveillance. It is comprised of a CMOS image-sensor, several digital-signal processors and a network processor. We present its scalable and reconfigurable two-fold software framework, which enables the dynamic allocation of algorithmic tasks ("applications") to the DSPs. This framework provides middleware-like service like abstraction of data sources and communication channels. We introduce a resource manager, which manages and keeps track of the DSP´s on-chip resources like memory utilization, direct memory-access (DMA) channels and interrupts. Using the resource manager, applications can be distributed to DSPs with the lowest system load. Experiments with our prototype show the system´s usability using an MPEG-4 encoder and a sophisticated videoanalysis algorithm.
Zeitraum16 Nov. 2004
EreignistitelEDERS-2004: The European DSP Education and Research Symposium
VeranstaltungstypSonstiges
BekanntheitsgradInternational

Research Field

  • Nicht definiert

Schlagwörter

  • system; digital signal processor;
  • Keywords: smart camera; traffic surveillance; embedded