Designing a Video Rate Edge detection ASIC

A method of generating a video rate edge maps and thereby segmenting an image into regions based on the Kolmogorov Smirnov test is presented By applying this test and comparing cumulative distribution functions of the intensities in the neighbourhood of a given pixel the pixel can be accurately classi ed as either an edge pixel on the boundary between regions or as a pixel belonging to a particular type of region It is shown that a custom VLSI design for this algorithm using parallel pipelined architecture is realisable The outline of this design is presented and then the critical path modules are simulated Contact mehdi vast unsw edu au hell vast unsw edu au Designing a Video Rate Edge detection ASIC