[UCI-Calit2] CS Seminar Series Friday, Dec. 7

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Computer Science Seminar Series

 

Title:                               Smart Frame Grabber: A
Hardware/Software Framework for Accelerating Vision Applications



Time:                              11 a.m.-noon



Date:                              Friday Dec. 7, 2012


Location:                        Donald Bren Hall, Room 6011 (conference
room)


Speaker:                        Ryan Kastner, UC San Diego


Abstract: 

There is an inherent tension in developing real-time vision
applications. Algorithmic design in software is relatively easy, but it
cannot always achieve the desired latency and throughput constraints.
Hardware, on the other hand, has the capability of meeting the
performance constraints, but it is painfully difficult to implement. To
mitigate these problems, we developed the Smart Frame Grabber. The Smart
Frame Grabber is a hardware/software system where a hardware accelerator
directly connected to the camera(s) performs low-level image processing.
The results of these high-throughput operations are feed to a processor,
which performs more complex high-level operations like planning and
learning. This talk provides details on the Smart Frame Grabber. It
describes RIFFA, our framework for integrating the hardware
accelerators, GPUs and CPUs. Then it provides an overview of our
"simulate and eliminate" hardware design methodology to create custom
hardware accelerators.

Speaker's Bio:

Kastner is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received
a Ph.D. in computer science at UCLA, a master's degree in engineering
and bachelor's degrees in both electrical engineering and computer
engineering, all from Northwestern University. He is the co-director of
the Wireless Embedded Systems Master of Advanced Studies Program. He
also co-directs the Engineers for Exploration Program. His current
research interests reside in the realm of embedded system design, in
particular, the use of reconfigurable computing devices for digital
signal processing.

For more information on this computer science seminar series please
click here <http://www.cs.uci.edu/research/seminarseries/> .




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