PARALLEL AND LOCAL FEATURE-EXTRACTION - A REAL-TIME APPROACH TO ROAD BOUNDARY DETECTION

This work presents a system for the extraction of road boundaries from an image taken in an out-of-town environment. In this application, co mputational speed and performance play a fundamental role in the selec tion of the hardware platform and the design of algorithms. The algori thm has been designed to be implemented on a special-purpose mesh-conn ected SIMD architecture, PAPRICA, which will be fitted to the vehicle. This presentation focuses on the algorithms and in particular on proc essing speed.