Volume 12, Number 22, December 2022

Hardware Acceleration of Lane Detection Algorithm: A GPU Versus FPGA Comparison

  Authors

Mohamed Alshemi¹, Sherif Saif² and Mohamed Taher³, ¹Ain Shams University, Egypt, ²Electronics Research Institute, Egypt

  Abstract

A Complete Computer vision system can be divided into two main categories: detection and classification. The Lane detection algorithm is a part of the computer vision detection category and has been applied in autonomous driving and smart vehicle systems. The lane detection system is responsible for lane marking in a complex road environment. At the same time, lane detection plays a crucial role in the warning system for a car when departs the lane. The implemented lane detection algorithm is mainly divided into two steps: edge detection and line detection. In this paper, we will compare the state-of-the-art implementation performance obtained with both FPGA and GPU to evaluate the trade-off for latency, power consumption, and utilization. Our comparison emphasises the advantages and disadvantages of the two systems.

  Keywords

Lane Detection, Computer Vision, FPGA, GPU, CUDA.