Energy-Efficient Acceleration of OpenCV Saliency Computation Using Soft Vector Processors

• Main Authors: Hegde, Gopalakrishna, Kapre, Nachiket
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Computer Science and Engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81239; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39151
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Soft vector processors in embedded FPGA platforms such as the Vector Blox MXP engine can match the performance and exceed the energy-efficiency of commercial off-the-shelf embedded SoCs with SIMD or GPU accelerators for OpenCV applications such as Saliency detection. We are also able to beat spatial...