An 81.6 GOPS Object Recognition Processor Based on NoC and Visual Image Processing Memory

Abstract

An 81.6 GOPS object recognition processor is developed by using NoC and Visual Image Processing (VIP) memory. SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform) object recognition requires huge computing power and data transactions among tasks. The chip integrates 10 SIMD PEs for data/task level parallelism while the NoC facilitates inter-PE communications. The VIP memory searches local maximum pixel inside a 3×3 window in a single cycle providing 65.6 GOPS. The proposed processor achieves 15.9fps SIFT feature extraction at 200 MHz.