Three dimensional (3D) surface feature extractions based on mean (H) and
Gaussian (K) curvature analysis of range maps, also known as depth maps, is an
important tool for machine vision applications such as object detection,
registration and recognition. Mean and Gaussian curvature calculation algorithms
have already been implemented and examined as software. In this thesis,
hardware based digital curvature processors are designed. Two types of real time
surface feature extraction and classification hardware are developed which
perform mean and Gaussian curvature analysis at different scale levels. The
techniques use different gradient approximations. A fast square root algorithm
using both LUT (look up table) and linear fitting technique is developed to
calculate H and K values of the surface described by the 3D Range Map formed
by fixed point numbers. The proposed methods are simulated in MatLab software
and implemented on different FPGAs using VHDL hardware language.
Calculation times, outputs and power analysis of these techniques are compared to
CPU based 64 bit float data type calculations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612200/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 July 2010 |
| Creators | Tellioglu, Zafer Hasim |
| Contributors | Ulusoy, Ilkay |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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