Intelligent Autonomous Camera Module (IAKM)

Goals

• Develop an intelligent camera unit with the following features:– Standalone;– Equipped with extraordinary powerful image analog

and digital image processing engines;– Image evaluation ability;– Equipped with communication devices;– Remote programmable;– Applications: security, industrial and medical image

processing

System specification• Windows NT based industrial Host

PC:

• High performance PCI image processing devices:– CNN based dual processor card

– TriMedia processor card

• Image processing library

• Digital and analog frame grabber

• Communication unit

• Camera controller

• Remote controllable camera

Remote controllable camera

Software environment

PC level software(exe)

TriMedia interface

(dll)

Analogic module interface

(dll)

Communication module interface

Executable code on the

analogic module

Executable code on the

TriMedia module

PCMCI peripheries

PC

peripheries

• PC level software– Graphic multi-document

interface (MDI)

– Controls all the peripheries (communication, synchronization)

– Drives the communication devices

• Image processing peripheries – Programmed in C

– Requesting data from the host and/or each-other

Image processing library

• Includes the basic routines of the image processing;

• Optimized for the special hardware devices;

• Can handle the special hardware;

• Standard interface;

• Can be called from C programs;

System components Iremote controllable camera

camera

Microcontroller

Power supply

Temperature controlled housing

• Remote controllable in ALL settings

• High resolution vide image (470TVL)

• 23x optical zoom (2,5°-54° view angle)

• 758x592 progressive scan CCD

• Control through RS485 line

• Up to 32 addressable cameras on the same RS485 line

• External sync

• Switchable IR filter

• Electronic shutter 2/3s - 1/30000s

• 0,01 lux sensitivity

System components IIHost industrial PC

• PC-104 plus standard• Full Pentium PC

configuration• PCI and ISA buses• Small floppy disc sized cards• Industrial/outdoor quality• High reliability

System components IIIanalogic processor unit

• CNN chip subunit– Over 4000 processing elements

– Parallel operation

– TeraOPS equivalent digital operation

– Color, grayscale, and black-and-white image processing capability

• DSP subunit– Texas C6202 DSP @250MHz

– 16MByte SDRAM @125MHz

– PCI bus

– PC104plus form factor

System components IVTriMedia processing unit and frame grabber

• TriMedia processor @ 166MHz

• 6.5 BOPS

• Special purpose digital image processing processor

• 32 MByte SDRAM @ 143MHz

• DMA controlled multimedia input and output gates

• MPEG2 support

• PC104 plus form factor

Application areas

Traffic safety systems (e.g. identifying cars heading opposite direction on a freeway, multi-modal image fusion for pilots)

Industrial quality assurance systems;

Medical imaging systems (e.g.: real-time ultrasonic image analyzer, 2D and 3D reconstruction)

Professional security systems (e.g.: bank security);

Special surveillance systems

Thank you for your interest!