• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 51, Issue 11, 1104001 (2022)
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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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20225111.1104001 Cite this Article
    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 Copy Citation Text show less
    Location processor architecture
    Fig. 1. Location processor architecture
    Processing flow
    Fig. 2. Processing flow
    ALU circuits(Comp denotes complement)
    Fig. 3. ALU circuits(Comp denotes complement)
    Coordinate calculation of the locator
    Fig. 4. Coordinate calculation of the locator
    Accelerated Gaussian filtering procedure
    Fig. 5. Accelerated Gaussian filtering procedure
    Object location procedure
    Fig. 6. Object location procedure
    Photo of experimental hardware environment
    Fig. 7. Photo of experimental hardware environment
    Waveform of experiments
    Fig. 8. Waveform of experiments
    Gaussian filtering result(left:before processing,right:processed)
    Fig. 9. Gaussian filtering result(left:before processing,right:processed)
    Object location result(left:before processing,right:processed)
    Fig. 10. Object location result(left:before processing,right:processed)
    Accumulated framesBefore denoiseAfter denoise
    1057.0620.87
    2057.3427.05
    5035.9920.91
    Table 1. Denoise comparison(the less the score,the better)
    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)
    Table 2. Comparison with other studies
    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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