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Performance Measurements of Sobel Edge Detection Implemented in an FPGA Architecture and Software

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Proceedings of the 4th Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym'18) (BTSym 2018)

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This paper presents an implementation of Sobel edge detection in static images for the FPGA, described in Verilog, and for the respective software: Mathematica, MATLAB, OpenCV and in-house C++ written program. Comparisons in performance were made between the different applications. The results concluded that the FPGA was faster.

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  1. Systems Engineering and Information Technology Institute/Microelectronics Group, Federal University of Itajubá, 1303 BPS Ave, Pinheirinho, Post Box 50, Itajubá, MG, 37500 903, Brazil

    Tercio Naoki Sato, Gabriel Pedro Krupa & Leonardo Breseghello Zoccal

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  1. Faculty of Electrical and Computing Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Yuzo Iano

  2. Faculty of Technology, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

    Rangel Arthur

  3. Divisão de Engenharia Eletrônica, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica ITA, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Osamu Saotome

  4. Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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    Hermes José Loschi

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Sato, T.N., Pedro Krupa, G., Zoccal, L.B. (2019). Performance Measurements of Sobel Edge Detection Implemented in an FPGA Architecture and Software. In: Iano, Y., Arthur, R., Saotome, O., Vieira Estrela, V., Loschi, H. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym'18). BTSym 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16053-1_22

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