Mapping a Guided Image Filter on the HARP Reconfigurable Architecture Using OpenCL
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Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
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Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, imec-IPI-Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Algorithms 2019, 12(8), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/a12080149
Received: 27 June 2019 / Revised: 23 July 2019 / Accepted: 25 July 2019 / Published: 27 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue High Performance Reconfigurable Computing)
Intel recently introduced the Heterogeneous Architecture Research Platform, HARP. In this platform, the Central Processing Unit and a Field-Programmable Gate Array are connected through a high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnect and both share DRAM memory. For this platform, Open Computing Language (OpenCL), a High-Level Synthesis (HLS) language, is made available. By making use of HLS, a faster design cycle can be achieved compared to programming in a traditional hardware description language. This, however, comes at the cost of having less control over the hardware implementation. We will investigate how OpenCL can be applied to implement a real-time guided image filter on the HARP platform. In the first phase, the performance-critical parameters of the OpenCL programming model are defined using several specialized benchmarks. In a second phase, the guided image filter algorithm is implemented using the insights gained in the first phase. Both a floating-point and a fixed-point implementation were developed for this algorithm, based on a sliding window implementation. This resulted in a maximum floating-point performance of 135 GFLOPS, a maximum fixed-point performance of 430 GOPS and a throughput of HD color images at 74 frames per second.
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Faict, T.; D’Hollander, E.H.; Goossens, B. Mapping a Guided Image Filter on the HARP Reconfigurable Architecture Using OpenCL. Algorithms 2019, 12, 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/a12080149
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Faict T, D’Hollander EH, Goossens B. Mapping a Guided Image Filter on the HARP Reconfigurable Architecture Using OpenCL. Algorithms. 2019; 12(8):149. https://doi.org/10.3390/a12080149
Chicago/Turabian StyleFaict, Thomas; D’Hollander, Erik H.; Goossens, Bart. 2019. "Mapping a Guided Image Filter on the HARP Reconfigurable Architecture Using OpenCL" Algorithms 12, no. 8: 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/a12080149
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