TY - JOUR AU - Dejnožková, Eva AU - Dokládal, Petr PY - 2005 DA - 2005/10/23 TI - Embedded Real-Time Architecture for Level-Set-Based Active Contours JO - EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing SP - 245879 VL - 2005 IS - 17 AB - Methods described by partial differential equations have gained a considerable interest because of undoubtful advantages such as an easy mathematical description of the underlying physics phenomena, subpixel precision, isotropy, or direct extension to higher dimensions. Though their implementation within the level set framework offers other interesting advantages, their vast industrial deployment on embedded systems is slowed down by their considerable computational effort. This paper exploits the high parallelization potential of the operators from the level set framework and proposes a scalable, asynchronous, multiprocessor platform suitable for system-on-chip solutions. We concentrate on obtaining real-time execution capabilities. The performance is evaluated on a continuous watershed and an object-tracking application based on a simple gradient-based attraction force driving the active countour. The proposed architecture can be realized on commercially available FPGAs. It is built around general-purpose processor cores, and can run code developed with usual tools. SN - 1687-6180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.2788 DO - 10.1155/ASP.2005.2788 ID - Dejnožková2005 ER -