Real Time FPGA Implementation of Super Resolution for Infrared Cameras

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2015-08-24

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AKTUKMAK, Mehmet
Halıcı, Uğur

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At present, the quality of image taken from infrared cameras is low compared to the other cameras because of manufacturing technology. Therefore, resolution enhancement processes are becoming more important for these cameras. Super resolution is a good approach to solve this resolution problem. In general, the systems that infrared cameras used require video processing to perform in real time. So, a suitable approach should be selected and implemented to work in real time. The computational load and processing time are big issues in this case. FPGAs are proven to be appropriate hardware devices for these types of works. Super resolution involves two parts as global motion estimation and high resolution image reconstruction. In this study, one suitable algorithm, namely as Projection Method (PM) is selected for global motion estimation. On the other hand, for high resolution image reconstruction part, Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm is found to be suitable for real time implementation.

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Infrared camera, Real time, FPGA implementation, Super resolution

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M. AKTUKMAK and U. Halıcı, “Real Time FPGA Implementation of Super Resolution for Infrared Cameras,” 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/54250.