Parallelization of Hough transform for high-speed straight-line detection in XGA-size videos

We report a FPGA-hardware implementation of a novel Hough-transform (HT) architecture. A DE4 platform with a Stratix-IV FPGA device has been applied to synthesize a complete prototype system. Due to parallelization of the voting procedure, XGA videos can be processed with a frame delay of 5.4 ms at an operating frequency of 200MHz. System suitability for detecting road lanes in automotive applications has been verified.