Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 51, Issue 11, 1104001(2022)

An Ultra High-speed Object Location Processor for SPAD Spike Image Sensors

Chunhe YAO1,2, Xu YANG1, Mingxin ZHAO1,2, Jian LIU1,2, Nanjian WU1,2,3, and Liyuan LIU1,2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures,Institute of Semiconductors,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100083China
  • 2Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100049China
  • 3Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100083China
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    Location processor architecture
    Processing flow
    ALU circuits(Comp denotes complement)
    Coordinate calculation of the locator
    Accelerated Gaussian filtering procedure
    Object location procedure
    Photo of experimental hardware environment
    Waveform of experiments
    Gaussian filtering result(left:before processing,right:processed)
    Object location result(left:before processing,right:processed)
    • Table 1. Denoise comparison(the less the score,the better)

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      Table 1. Denoise comparison(the less the score,the better)

      Accumulated framesBefore denoiseAfter denoise
      1057.0620.87
      2057.3427.05
      5035.9920.91
    • Table 2. Comparison with other studies

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      Table 2. Comparison with other studies

      Ref.[17Ref.[18Ref.[19Ref.[20Original algorithmProposed algorithm
      FPGASpartan-6Stratix IVZynq-7045Kintex-7Kintex-7Kintex-7
      Image Type8 bits12 bit8 bitsSpikeSpikeSpike
      Frequency/MHz16480100N/A150220
      Frame Rate/KfpsN/A100.6340100/1 095(Peak)100/1 605(Peak)
      Execution time/nsN/A760N/A446041
      Resources(LUT)2 023302 073(w/o DSP)20 873N/A129 72935 772
      Throughput*/(pixels·s-1N/A2.621 G48.38 M4.000 G1.638 G/17.94 G(Peak)1.638 G/26.30 G(Peak)
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    Chunhe YAO, Xu YANG, Mingxin ZHAO, Jian LIU, Nanjian WU, Liyuan LIU. An Ultra High-speed Object Location Processor for SPAD Spike Image Sensors[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2022, 51(11): 1104001

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    Received: Apr. 18, 2022

    Accepted: May. 13, 2022

    Published Online: Dec. 13, 2022

    The Author Email: Liyuan LIU (liuly@semi.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20225111.1104001

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