Section: Application Domains

Reflective Camera Networks

HiPEAC vision 2011-2012:

“reconfiguration, customization and runtime adaptation techniques will facilitate switching between tasks during the deployment of smart camera networks”

A Smart Camera (SC) is a vision system which, in addition to image-capturing capabilities, is able to extract application-specific information from the captured images and to automatically make intelligent decisions based on them. Dynamicity is inherent in SCs: processing may change depending on the specific observations they make and on the context. For example, an SC may use a low-quality face recognition IP while observing an office during the day, but switch to a high-quality one if it detects an intrusion during the night. Moreover, image processing requires high-performance computing, which is achieved by using parallelism. Thus, the integration of dynamic reconfiguration and parallelism, which is addressed by our project, is naturally present in SCs. Previous work in the DaRT team has already explored efficient uses of FPGAs in an SC network deployed in a retail store. A new proposal concerns embedded reflective camera in the Smart Cities multidisciplinary project developed on the University Lille 1 campus.