A Digital Processing Architecture For 3D Reconstruction

Many systems and data processing for 3D vision have been designed but few have targeted real-time embedded systems. We present in this article Cyclope, an original real-time embedded multi-spectral 3D vision sensor. For this, we have developed a new digital processing architecture to reconstruct the 3D information from images. This architecture conforms to embedded system constrains as power dissipation and limited resources. It's a massively-parallel architecture in a totaly scalable IP to assure the compatibility with several processing schemes. This architecture has been implemented on a FPGA target and we have obtained accurate results while ensuring realtime operations.