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Implementation of FPGA Based Image Processing Algorithm Using
Xilinx System Generator
Deepesh Prakash Guragain1, Pramod Ghimire2, Kapil Budhathoki3
1,2Asst.Professor,Dept of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Nepal Engineering College, Bhaktapur Nepal
3E-Matrix Pvt. Ltd, Kathmandu, Nepal
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Abstract – This paper provides the method of image
processing using Xilinx System Generator. Xilinx System
Generator has necessary libraries to assist various types of
algorithms. It is integrated with Matlab Simulinkenvironment
in this work. Model based design approach is used to
implement various kinds of image processing algorithms.
Hardware co-simulation is done to verify the results. The
different image processing algorithms for RGB to gray scale,
algorithm for image negatives, image enhancement,
background subtraction, thresholding, erosion, dilation and
masking are implemented using available System Generator
blocks.
Key Words: Image Processing, Xilinx System Generator,
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), DSP, Matlab
1. Introduction
Image processing has wide applicationsfrom medicalimage
processing to computer vision, digital photography, satellite
imaging, digital encryption and decryption. The quality of
image is considerably increased by image processing
algorithms, which helps lot in medical imaging, surveillance
and robotics application for target identification and
tracking [1].
The need to process the image in real time istimeconsuming
and leads to the only method of implementing the algorithm
at hardware level. With FPGA implementations, the logic
required by an application is implemented by building
separate hardware for each function. Also FPGAs are
inherently parallel; this gives the speed to those real time
applications while retaining the programmable flexibility of
software at a relatively low cost. This paper aims to
implement image processing algorithmsusing XilinxSystem
Generator. The hardware implementation of the algorithms
on FPGAs is done using model based design approach.
1.1 Xilinx System Generator
The Xilinx’s Generator is a System-level modeling tool from
Xilinx that facilitates FPGA hardware design. It extends
Simulink in many ways to provide a modeling environment
well suited for hardware design. The software automatically
converts the high level System DSPblockdiagramtoRTL.The
result can be synthesized to Xilinx’s FPGA technology using
ISE tools, all of the downstream FPGA implementation steps
including synthesis place and route are automatically
performed to generate an FPGA programming file. System
Generator automatesthe design process, debugs,implement
and verifies the Xilinx-based FPGAs. It provides a high speed
HDL co-simulation interfaces which give up to a 1000x
simulation performance increase. System Generator also
supports a black box block that allows RTL to be imported
into Simulink and co-simulated with either Modelsim or
Xilinx ISE simulator [2].
1.2 Design flow for image processing using Xilinx
System Generator
The algorithms are developed and models are built using
library provided by Xilinx Blockset. These models are
simulated in Matlab/Simulink environment. The reflected
result is viewed on a video viewer. The resultsobtainedfrom
System Generator are configured for suitable FPGA
implementation. The behavioral model is verified,
synthesized and implemented on FPGA. The Xilinx System
Generator itself has the feature of generating user
constraints file (.ucf), test bench and test vectors for testing
architecture.
Fig -1: Design flow for FPGA based implementation of
image processing algorithms.
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2. Interfacing with System Generator Design
The Simulink environment uses a “double” to represent
number in a simulation. A double is a 64 bit 2’s complement
floating point number. Since this number system consumes
lot of resources and is not efficient for FPGAs. The Xilinx
blocksets uses n-bit fixed point numbers, thusaconversionis
required when Xilinx blocks communicate with Simulink
blocks [2].Gateway In, Gateway Out, and Sampling are used
during this conversion.
3. Methodology of implementation of image
processing in hardware
All required hardware algorithms are implemented in
between image pre-processing andimage post-processingas
depicted in Fig-2. Image source, image viewer, Image Pre-
Processing and Image Post-Processing units are common for
the entire image processing applications and they are
implemented in Simulink.
Fig -2: Design flow of hardware implementation of image
processing
4. Image Pre-Processing Unit
Image pre-processing in Matlab helps in providing input to
FPGA as specific test vector array which is suitable for FPGA
bit stream compilation using System Generator [3].
Fig -3: Image Pre-Processing Unit
The Image Pre-Processing unit block is shown in Fig-3.
Resize, Convert 2-D to 1-D, Frame conversion and unbuffer
are implemented inthis unit.The conversion from2-Dto1-D
data is needed as FPGAs operate in one dimensional data
only.
5. Image Post-Processing Unit
Image post-processing helps in recreating image from 1-D
array. It consists of four blocks: DataTypeConversion,Buffer,
Convert 1-Dto2-D, and video viewer. Thefirstblockconverts
image signal to unsigned integer format. Second block
converts scalar samples to frame output at lower sampling
rate. Third block converts 1-D image signal to 2-D image
matrix. The last block is used to display the output image
back on the monitor.Fig-4 depictsthe Image Post-processing
steps in block diagram form.
Fig -4: Image Post-Processing Unit
5.1: Algorithm for gray scale conversion
Tominimizetheprocessing time, color imagesare converted
into grayscale level according to the color of each pixel that
contains red(R), green (G), and blue (B) [4],[5]. The RGB
image is converted to a grayscale image according to the
following equation.
Y=0.3*R + 0.59*G + 0.11*B
Fig-5 shows the algorithm in block diagram form.
Fig -5: Algorithm for Gray scale conversion
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Fig -6: Result obtained from Grayscale Image Conversion.
5.2 Algorithm for gray scale image negative
Negative image is obtained by simply inverting the image
matrix. Such produced image looks like the negative of the
film. InMatlab, this isobtained by inverting theimage source
with NOT gate or by using Addsub block, subtracting one
input by constant 255. Both the Addsub and NOT gate is
available in Xilinx SystemGeneratorlibrarywhichmakesteps
simpler to use. The algorithm used is shown in Fig-8.
Fig -7: Algorithm for Image Negative using Addsub Block
for Gray scale Image
Fig -8: Algorithm for Image Negative using Inverter Block
for Grayscale Image
Fig -9: Result obtained from Grayscale Negative
5.3 Algorithm for image enhancement
Image enhancement improves the interpretability or
perception of information in images for human viewers
[6],[7],[8]. Fig-11 shows the result obtained.
Fig -10: Algorithm for Grayscale Color Enhancement
Fig -11: Result for Grayscale Image Enhancement
5.4 Algorithm for Image contrast stretching
Grayscale image is stretched according to the equation.
New_ pixel =3(old pixel-127) +112
where, New_pixel is its result after the transformation.
Fig -12: Algorithm for Grayscale Image Enhancement
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Fig -13: Result obtained from Grayscale Contrast
stretching
5.5 Algorithm for Image Thresholding
Thresholding an image is the method of replacing each pixel
in an image with a black pixel in the image intensity if it is
less than some fixed constant value or white pixel if the
image intensity is greater than that constant [9],[10]. Fig-14
shows the basic block diagram of thresholding while Fig-15
depicts the result that we implemented in the FPGA.
Fig -14: Algorithm for Grayscale image thresholding
Fig -15: Result of Grayscale Image thresholding
5.6 Background subtraction
We use simple Addsub block to get the image of interest as
shown in Fig-16 with the result that we obtained in Fig-17.
Fig -16: Algorithm for Grayscale Image background
subtraction
Fig -17: Result obtained from background subtraction
5.7 Erosion
In erosion, an object pixel is kept only if the structuring
elements fit completely within the object; the output is
considered as object pixel only if all of the inputs are one
thus erosion is logical AND of the pixel within the window.
The object size reducesbecause of erosion.Fig-18andFig-19
shows the block diagram form of the implementation of the
erosion and the hardware implementation result.
Fig -18: Algorithm for binary image erosion.
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Fig -19: Result obtained from erosion
5.7 Dilation
With dilation, each pixel is replaced by the shape of the
structure element within the output image. Fig-20 and Fig-
21 indicates the block diagram of the dilation operation and
the output that we obtained from the hardware
implementation.
Fig -20: Algorithm for dilation
Fig -21: Result obtained from Dilation algorithm
5.8 Algorithm for Edge detection
Edge detection is filtering and masking operation with
suitable filter mask. Xilinx 5×5 filter provides coefficient for
an Edge, Sobel X, Sobel Y, Sobel X-Y, Blur, Smooth, Sharpen,
Gaussian filtering. For Filtering operation, the delay is
created by 5×5 filter block to avoid this error since the
System Generator has to be clocked 5 times faster than the
normal clock. Fig-22 and Fig-23 demonstrates the block
diagram and the FPGA output results.
Fig -22: Algorithm for Edge detection for Grayscale Image.
Fig -24: Masking with setting of the background to black
or white.
Fig -23: Result obtained from Edge detection
5.9 Masking
Masking is commonly used to select a region of an image to
process, while ignoring irrelevant region within the image.
The choice to use AND or OR depends on the desired level
for background. ANDing with zero will result in black
background, while ORing with one will make white
background. Fig-24 shows algorithm for masking while Fig-
25 shows its output.
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Fig -25: Result obtained from Masking Algorithm.
6. Hardware/Software Co-Simulation in System
Generator
System generator provideshardware co-simulation making
it possible to incorporate a design running on an FPGA
directly into Simulink simulation. When the systemdesignis
simulated in Simulink, result for the compiled portion are
calculated in actual FPGA hardware, often resulting in
significantly faster simulation time while verifying the
functional correctness of the hardware.
7. Conclusions
Xilinx System Generator is integrated with Matlab Simulink
for the real time image processing algorithms. Hardwareco-
simulation is used during the FPGA verification.
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Implementation of FPGA Based Image Processing Algorithm using Xilinx System Generator

  • 1. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 05 Issue: 01 | Jan-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2018, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1457 Implementation of FPGA Based Image Processing Algorithm Using Xilinx System Generator Deepesh Prakash Guragain1, Pramod Ghimire2, Kapil Budhathoki3 1,2Asst.Professor,Dept of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Nepal Engineering College, Bhaktapur Nepal 3E-Matrix Pvt. Ltd, Kathmandu, Nepal ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract – This paper provides the method of image processing using Xilinx System Generator. Xilinx System Generator has necessary libraries to assist various types of algorithms. It is integrated with Matlab Simulinkenvironment in this work. Model based design approach is used to implement various kinds of image processing algorithms. Hardware co-simulation is done to verify the results. The different image processing algorithms for RGB to gray scale, algorithm for image negatives, image enhancement, background subtraction, thresholding, erosion, dilation and masking are implemented using available System Generator blocks. Key Words: Image Processing, Xilinx System Generator, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), DSP, Matlab 1. Introduction Image processing has wide applicationsfrom medicalimage processing to computer vision, digital photography, satellite imaging, digital encryption and decryption. The quality of image is considerably increased by image processing algorithms, which helps lot in medical imaging, surveillance and robotics application for target identification and tracking [1]. The need to process the image in real time istimeconsuming and leads to the only method of implementing the algorithm at hardware level. With FPGA implementations, the logic required by an application is implemented by building separate hardware for each function. Also FPGAs are inherently parallel; this gives the speed to those real time applications while retaining the programmable flexibility of software at a relatively low cost. This paper aims to implement image processing algorithmsusing XilinxSystem Generator. The hardware implementation of the algorithms on FPGAs is done using model based design approach. 1.1 Xilinx System Generator The Xilinx’s Generator is a System-level modeling tool from Xilinx that facilitates FPGA hardware design. It extends Simulink in many ways to provide a modeling environment well suited for hardware design. The software automatically converts the high level System DSPblockdiagramtoRTL.The result can be synthesized to Xilinx’s FPGA technology using ISE tools, all of the downstream FPGA implementation steps including synthesis place and route are automatically performed to generate an FPGA programming file. System Generator automatesthe design process, debugs,implement and verifies the Xilinx-based FPGAs. It provides a high speed HDL co-simulation interfaces which give up to a 1000x simulation performance increase. System Generator also supports a black box block that allows RTL to be imported into Simulink and co-simulated with either Modelsim or Xilinx ISE simulator [2]. 1.2 Design flow for image processing using Xilinx System Generator The algorithms are developed and models are built using library provided by Xilinx Blockset. These models are simulated in Matlab/Simulink environment. The reflected result is viewed on a video viewer. The resultsobtainedfrom System Generator are configured for suitable FPGA implementation. The behavioral model is verified, synthesized and implemented on FPGA. The Xilinx System Generator itself has the feature of generating user constraints file (.ucf), test bench and test vectors for testing architecture. Fig -1: Design flow for FPGA based implementation of image processing algorithms.
  • 2. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 05 Issue: 01 | Jan-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2018, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1458 2. Interfacing with System Generator Design The Simulink environment uses a “double” to represent number in a simulation. A double is a 64 bit 2’s complement floating point number. Since this number system consumes lot of resources and is not efficient for FPGAs. The Xilinx blocksets uses n-bit fixed point numbers, thusaconversionis required when Xilinx blocks communicate with Simulink blocks [2].Gateway In, Gateway Out, and Sampling are used during this conversion. 3. Methodology of implementation of image processing in hardware All required hardware algorithms are implemented in between image pre-processing andimage post-processingas depicted in Fig-2. Image source, image viewer, Image Pre- Processing and Image Post-Processing units are common for the entire image processing applications and they are implemented in Simulink. Fig -2: Design flow of hardware implementation of image processing 4. Image Pre-Processing Unit Image pre-processing in Matlab helps in providing input to FPGA as specific test vector array which is suitable for FPGA bit stream compilation using System Generator [3]. Fig -3: Image Pre-Processing Unit The Image Pre-Processing unit block is shown in Fig-3. Resize, Convert 2-D to 1-D, Frame conversion and unbuffer are implemented inthis unit.The conversion from2-Dto1-D data is needed as FPGAs operate in one dimensional data only. 5. Image Post-Processing Unit Image post-processing helps in recreating image from 1-D array. It consists of four blocks: DataTypeConversion,Buffer, Convert 1-Dto2-D, and video viewer. Thefirstblockconverts image signal to unsigned integer format. Second block converts scalar samples to frame output at lower sampling rate. Third block converts 1-D image signal to 2-D image matrix. The last block is used to display the output image back on the monitor.Fig-4 depictsthe Image Post-processing steps in block diagram form. Fig -4: Image Post-Processing Unit 5.1: Algorithm for gray scale conversion Tominimizetheprocessing time, color imagesare converted into grayscale level according to the color of each pixel that contains red(R), green (G), and blue (B) [4],[5]. The RGB image is converted to a grayscale image according to the following equation. Y=0.3*R + 0.59*G + 0.11*B Fig-5 shows the algorithm in block diagram form. Fig -5: Algorithm for Gray scale conversion
  • 3. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 05 Issue: 01 | Jan-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2018, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1459 Fig -6: Result obtained from Grayscale Image Conversion. 5.2 Algorithm for gray scale image negative Negative image is obtained by simply inverting the image matrix. Such produced image looks like the negative of the film. InMatlab, this isobtained by inverting theimage source with NOT gate or by using Addsub block, subtracting one input by constant 255. Both the Addsub and NOT gate is available in Xilinx SystemGeneratorlibrarywhichmakesteps simpler to use. The algorithm used is shown in Fig-8. Fig -7: Algorithm for Image Negative using Addsub Block for Gray scale Image Fig -8: Algorithm for Image Negative using Inverter Block for Grayscale Image Fig -9: Result obtained from Grayscale Negative 5.3 Algorithm for image enhancement Image enhancement improves the interpretability or perception of information in images for human viewers [6],[7],[8]. Fig-11 shows the result obtained. Fig -10: Algorithm for Grayscale Color Enhancement Fig -11: Result for Grayscale Image Enhancement 5.4 Algorithm for Image contrast stretching Grayscale image is stretched according to the equation. New_ pixel =3(old pixel-127) +112 where, New_pixel is its result after the transformation. Fig -12: Algorithm for Grayscale Image Enhancement
  • 4. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 05 Issue: 01 | Jan-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2018, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1460 Fig -13: Result obtained from Grayscale Contrast stretching 5.5 Algorithm for Image Thresholding Thresholding an image is the method of replacing each pixel in an image with a black pixel in the image intensity if it is less than some fixed constant value or white pixel if the image intensity is greater than that constant [9],[10]. Fig-14 shows the basic block diagram of thresholding while Fig-15 depicts the result that we implemented in the FPGA. Fig -14: Algorithm for Grayscale image thresholding Fig -15: Result of Grayscale Image thresholding 5.6 Background subtraction We use simple Addsub block to get the image of interest as shown in Fig-16 with the result that we obtained in Fig-17. Fig -16: Algorithm for Grayscale Image background subtraction Fig -17: Result obtained from background subtraction 5.7 Erosion In erosion, an object pixel is kept only if the structuring elements fit completely within the object; the output is considered as object pixel only if all of the inputs are one thus erosion is logical AND of the pixel within the window. The object size reducesbecause of erosion.Fig-18andFig-19 shows the block diagram form of the implementation of the erosion and the hardware implementation result. Fig -18: Algorithm for binary image erosion.
  • 5. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 05 Issue: 01 | Jan-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2018, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1461 Fig -19: Result obtained from erosion 5.7 Dilation With dilation, each pixel is replaced by the shape of the structure element within the output image. Fig-20 and Fig- 21 indicates the block diagram of the dilation operation and the output that we obtained from the hardware implementation. Fig -20: Algorithm for dilation Fig -21: Result obtained from Dilation algorithm 5.8 Algorithm for Edge detection Edge detection is filtering and masking operation with suitable filter mask. Xilinx 5×5 filter provides coefficient for an Edge, Sobel X, Sobel Y, Sobel X-Y, Blur, Smooth, Sharpen, Gaussian filtering. For Filtering operation, the delay is created by 5×5 filter block to avoid this error since the System Generator has to be clocked 5 times faster than the normal clock. Fig-22 and Fig-23 demonstrates the block diagram and the FPGA output results. Fig -22: Algorithm for Edge detection for Grayscale Image. Fig -24: Masking with setting of the background to black or white. Fig -23: Result obtained from Edge detection 5.9 Masking Masking is commonly used to select a region of an image to process, while ignoring irrelevant region within the image. The choice to use AND or OR depends on the desired level for background. ANDing with zero will result in black background, while ORing with one will make white background. Fig-24 shows algorithm for masking while Fig- 25 shows its output.
  • 6. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 05 Issue: 01 | Jan-2018 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2018, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1462 Fig -25: Result obtained from Masking Algorithm. 6. Hardware/Software Co-Simulation in System Generator System generator provideshardware co-simulation making it possible to incorporate a design running on an FPGA directly into Simulink simulation. When the systemdesignis simulated in Simulink, result for the compiled portion are calculated in actual FPGA hardware, often resulting in significantly faster simulation time while verifying the functional correctness of the hardware. 7. Conclusions Xilinx System Generator is integrated with Matlab Simulink for the real time image processing algorithms. Hardwareco- simulation is used during the FPGA verification. REFERENCES [1] R.G.R. Woods, “Digital Image Processing”, New Jersey; Prentice-Hall, 2008 [2] “DSP System Generator User Guide” 12.1, 2012 [3] N.P.A.A.Gokhale, “FPGA Implementation for Image Processing Algorithms Using Xilinx System Generator”, IOSR Journal of VLSI and Signal Processing, vol.2(4),pp.26-36 [4] S. R. A. S. J.C.Moctezuma, "Architecture for filtering images using Xilinx System Generator," World Scientific Advanced Series In Electrical And Computer Engineering, Proceeding ofthe2ndWSEASInternational Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications, pp. 284-289, 2008. [5] M. Ownby and M. W.H, "A Design Methodology for Implementing DSP with Xilinx System Generator for Matlab," IEEE International Symposium on System Theory., pp. 404-408, 2003. [6] R. S. P. J. P. R. NARESH, "Authentic Time Hardware Co- simulation of Edge Discovery for Video Processing System," International Journal of Research in Modern Engineering and Emerging Technology , vol. 1, no. 7, pp. 40-47, August 2013. [7] S. S. D. Praveen Vanaparthy, "FPGA Implementation of Image Enhancement Algorithms for Biomedical Image Processing," International JournalofAdvancedResearch in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering , vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 5747 - 5753, November 2013. [8] T. S. F. S. a. M. A. Yahia Said, "Real Time Hardware Co- simulation of Edge Detection for Video Processing System," Laboratory of ElectronicsandMicroelectronics (EμE) IEEE, pp. 852-855, 2012. [9] E. Kuhn, "Grayscale Conversion of a Color Image Using Simulink and Xilinx Blocks," 2010. [10] A. R. S. Ravi.S, "FPGA Based Design and Implementation of Image Edge Detection Using XilinxSystemGenerator," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 4657-4660, Oct 2013.