FPGA implementation of the pixel purity index algorithm

Dominique D. Lavenier; James P. Theiler; John J. Szymanski; Maya Gokhale; Janette R. Frigo

doi:10.1117/12.402525

6 October 2000 FPGA implementation of the pixel purity index algorithm

Dominique D. Lavenier, James P. Theiler, John J. Szymanski, Maya Gokhale, Janette R. Frigo

Proceedings Volume 4212, Reconfigurable Technology: FPGAs for Computing and Applications II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.402525
Event: Information Technologies 2000, 2000, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The Pixel Purity Index (PPI) is an algorithm employed in remote sensing for analyzing hyperspectral images. Particularly for low-resolution imagery, a single pixel usually covers several different materials, and its observed spectrum is (to a good approximation) a linear combination of a few pure spectral shapes. The PPI algorithm tries to identify these pure spectra by assigning a pixel purity index to each pixel in the image; the spectra for those pixels with a high index value are candidates for basis elements in the image decomposition. The PPI algorithm is extremely time consuming but is a good candidate for parallel hardware implementation due to its high volume of independent dot-product calculations. This article presents two parallel architectures we have developed and implemented on the Wildforce board. The first one is based on bit-serial arithmetic operators and the second deals with standard operators. Speed-up factors of up to 80 have been measured for these hand-coded architectures. In addition,the second version has been synthesized with the Streams-C compiler. The compiler translates a high level algorithm expressed in a parallel C extension into synthesizable VHDL. This comparison provides an interesting way of estimating the tradeoff between a traditional approach which tailors the design to get optimal performance and a fully automatic approach which aims to generate a correct design in minimal time.

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Dominique D. Lavenier, James P. Theiler, John J. Szymanski, Maya Gokhale, and Janette R. Frigo "FPGA implementation of the pixel purity index algorithm", Proc. SPIE 4212, Reconfigurable Technology: FPGAs for Computing and Applications II, (6 October 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.402525

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