Video Processing Using FPGAs in Video Surveillance Systems
Video surveillance systems are a key component in ensuring security at train stations, airports, banks, casinos, malls, even our homes. As security risks increase, the need to visually monitor and record events has escalated in diverse use models. As a result, new architectures must provide scalability for cost-effective solutions across an increasingly diverse set of video surveillance system requirements. Time-to-market pressures, new CODEC standards, a widening range of requirements (including advanced object detection, motion detection, object tracking, and object-tracking features) are just a few of the challenges for new video surveillance architectures. With these challenges comes a need for implementations that can be scaled to a varying range of performance. Xilinx? FPGAs are an ideal solution for video surveillance systems – from low end to high end, from stand-alone to PC add-on cards.