A novel Kohonen SOM-based image compression architecture suitable for moderate density FPGAs

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Kohonen self-organizing map (K-SOM) has proved to be suitable for lossy compression of digital images. The main drawback of this technique is that it is a very computationally intensive task if software implementation is performed alone. Fortunately, the structure is fairly easy to convert into parallel processing units. However, it consumes much of a microchip’s internal resources and results in utilizing more than a single microchip to realize the structure in pure hardware. Previously proposed K-SOM realizations were mainly targeted on implementing on an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) with low restriction on resource utilization. In this paper, we, in contrast, propose a novel architecture of K-SOM which compromises between image quality, frame rate throughput and FPGA’s resource utilization. The architecture is based on unsigned integer arithmetic in all operations and has been successfully synthesized on a single moderate resource FPGA with acceptable image quality and frame rate.

论文关键词:Image quantization,Image compression,FPGA-based implementation,Kohonen self-organizing map

论文评审过程:Received 10 February 2006, Revised 7 September 2007, Accepted 29 November 2007, Available online 16 December 2007.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2007.11.010