FPGA Accelerator for Real-Time Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging Show others and affiliations
2022 (English) In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1: Regular Papers, ISSN 1549-8328, E-ISSN 1558-0806, Vol. 69, no 2, p. 721-734Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging systems reconstruct hidden scenes using computational methods based on indirect light that diffusely reflected from relay walls. Due to the computation and memory requirements of reconstruction algorithms, real-time NLOS imaging for room-size scenes based on non-confocal data has long been challenging. This paper proposes a field programmable gate array (FPGA) accelerator for the recently proposed Rayleigh-Sommerfeld Diffraction (RSD)-based NLOS reconstruction method. In the proposed accelerator design, ring sampling and radius sampling techniques are proposed to reduce the memory requirements by reconstructing the RSD kernels with a set of kernel bases and ring sampling coefficients during the runtime. Based on that, a customized hardware architecture and the corresponding FPGA design for real-time RSD-based NLOS reconstruction is further proposed. Implementation results show that the proposed FPGA accelerator is capable of reconstructing NLOS scenes at 25 frames per second (FPS), running at a relatively slow clock frequency of 50 MHz. To the best knowledge of the authors, this is the first real-time enabled FPGA accelerator for room-size NLOS imaging with a resolution of 128×128 .
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2022. Vol. 69, no 2, p. 721-734
Keywords [en]
Field programmable gate arrays, Image reconstruction, Imaging, Kernel, Nonlinear optics, Real-time systems, Reconstruction algorithms, Acceleration, Computer hardware, Diffraction, Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), Integrated circuit design, Interactive computer systems, Logic gates, Memory architecture, Field-programmable gate array ., Hardware accelerators, Images reconstruction, Non-line-of-sight imaging, Rayleigh, Rayleigh-sommerfeld diffraction, Real - Time system, Real- time, Real time systems
National Category
Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-313124 DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2021.3122309 ISI: 000732397100001 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118628081 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-313124 DiVA, id: diva2:1670162
Note QC 20220615
2022-06-152022-06-152022-09-23 Bibliographically approved