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Paper Abstract
Methods to reconstruct pictures from imagery degraded by atmospheric turbulence have been under development for
decades. The techniques were initially developed for observing astronomical phenomena from the Earth’s surface, but
have more recently been modified for ground and air surveillance scenarios. Such applications can impose significant
constraints on deployment options because they both increase the computational complexity of the algorithms
themselves and often dictate a requirement for low size, weight, and power (SWaP) form factors. Consequently,
embedded implementations must be developed that can perform the necessary computations on low-SWaP platforms.
Fortunately, there is an emerging class of embedded processors driven by the mobile and ubiquitous computing
industries. We have leveraged these processors to develop embedded versions of the core atmospheric correction engine
found in our ATCOM software. In this paper, we will present our experience adapting our algorithms for embedded
systems on a chip (SoCs), namely the NVIDIA Tegra that couples general-purpose ARM cores with their graphics
processing unit (GPU) technology and the Xilinx Zynq which pairs similar ARM cores with their field-programmable
gate array (FPGA) fabric.
Paper Details
Date Published: 7 May 2017
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 10204, Long-Range Imaging II, 102040C (7 May 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2263204
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10204:
Long-Range Imaging II
Eric J. Kelmelis, Editor(s)
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 10204, Long-Range Imaging II, 102040C (7 May 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2263204
Show Author Affiliations
Stephen Kozacik, EM Photonics, Inc. (United States)
Univ. of Delaware (United States)
Eric Kelmelis, EM Photonics, Inc. (United States)
Univ. of Delaware (United States)
Eric Kelmelis, EM Photonics, Inc. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10204:
Long-Range Imaging II
Eric J. Kelmelis, Editor(s)
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