A real-time image recognition system usinga holographic memory and a microelectromechanical system (MEMS)

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23650087
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Shizuoka University
• Principal Investigator: WATANABE Minoru 静岡大学, 工学部, 准教授 (30325576)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: 光再構成ゲートアレイ / プログラマブルデバイス / MEMS / DLP / ホログラムメモリ / FPGA

Research Abstract

Recently, for use in autonomous vehicles and robots, demand has been increasing for high-speed image recognition that is superior to that of the human eye. However, to recognize numerous images quickly, such system requires many template images to be read out dynamically from memory. They must then be sent to a processor quickly. Realizing such high-speed real-time image recognition operation is difficult because of the bottleneck of transfer speed between the memory and the processor. Therefore, to improve the bottleneck, a dynamically reconfigurable vision architecture using a Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), a laser array, a holographic memory, and a VLSI has been developed and its performance has been demonstrated.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Optical configuration acceleration on a new optically reconfigurable gate array VLSI using a negative logic implementation (2013)
  • Author(s): R. Moriwaki, M. Watanabe
  • Journal Title: Applied Optics Volume: Vol.52, No.9 Pages: 1939-1946
• [Journal Article] Robust holographic storage system design (2011)
  • Author(s): T. Watanabe, M. Watanabe
  • Journal Title: Optics Express Volume: Vol.19, No.24 Pages: 24147-24158
• [Journal Article] A four-context programmable optically reconfigurable gate array with a reflective silver-halide holographic memory (2011)
  • Author(s): S. Kubota, M. Watanabe
  • Journal Title: IEEE Photonics Journal Volume: Vol.3,No.4 Pages: 665-675
• [Presentation] A fine-grained dependable optically reconfigurable gate array as a multi-soft-core processor platform (2013)
  • Author(s): R. Moriwaki, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE 7th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore SoCs
  • Year and Date: 20130900
• [Presentation] Image recognition operation on a dynamically reconfigurable vision architecture (2013)
  • Author(s): Y. Kamikubo, M. Watanabe, S. Kawahito
  • Organizer: International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
  • Year and Date: 20130900
• [Presentation] Fourier Transformation on an Optically Reconfigurable Gate Array (2013)
  • Author(s): H. Ito, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems
  • Year and Date: 20130800
• [Presentation] A dependability-increasing demonstration for a 16-configuration context optically reconfigurable gate array (2013)
  • Author(s): A. Tanigawa, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies
  • Year and Date: 20130600
• [Presentation] A 7-depth search FPGA Connect6 Solver (2013)
  • Author(s): R. Moriwaki, T. Yoza, Y. Kamikubo, Y. Torigai, A. Tanigawa, T. Kubota, H. Ito, Y. Shirahashi, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies
  • Year and Date: 20130600
• [Presentation] A 4-configuration-context optically reconfigurable gate array with a MEMS interleaving method (2013)
  • Author(s): Y. Yamaji, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems
  • Year and Date: 20130600
• [Presentation] Configuration on an optically reconfigurable gate array under the maximum 120°C temperature condition (2013)
  • Author(s): R. Moriwaki, M. Watanabe, A. Ogiwara
  • Organizer: OptoElectronics and Communications Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20130600
• [Presentation] Formation of Holographic Memory by Recording of Multi-context in Liquid Crystal Composites (2013)
  • Author(s): A. Ogiwara, H. Maekawa, M. Watanabe, R. Moriwaki
  • Organizer: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20130600
• [Presentation] Dependability-increasing method of processors under a space radiation environment (2013)
  • Author(s): Y. Shirahashi, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing
  • Place of Presentation: Los Angeles, USA
  • Year and Date: 2013-05-25
• [Presentation] 0.18 um CMOS process photodiode memory (2013)
  • Author(s): T. Kubota, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2013-05-21
• [Presentation] A dependability-increasing technique on a multi-context optically reconfigurable gate array (2013)
  • Author(s): A. Tanigawa, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2013-05-21
• [Presentation] MEMS interleaving method for optically reconfigurable gate arrays (2013)
  • Author(s): Y. Yamaji, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, CD-ROM
  • Place of Presentation: IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, CD-ROM
  • Year and Date: 2013-05-11
• [Presentation] Power consumption of mono-instruction set computers (MISCs) (2013)
  • Author(s): H. Ito, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE Symposium on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips
  • Place of Presentation: Yokohama, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2013-04-18
• [Presentation] A uniform partitioning method for Mono-Instruction Set Computer (MISC) (2012)
  • Author(s): H. Ito, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Renewable Computing Systems
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2012-09-28
• [Presentation] A 256-configuration-context MEMS optically reconfigurable gate array (2012)
  • Author(s): Y. Yamaji, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-09-26
• [Presentation] Gray-level image recognition on a dynamically reconfigurable vision architecture (2012)
  • Author(s): Y. Kamikubo, M. Watanabe, S. Kawahito
  • Organizer: IEEE SOC Conference
  • Place of Presentation: New York, USA
  • Year and Date: 2012-09-12
• [Presentation] A 16-configuration-context robust optically reconfigurable gate array with a reconfiguration speed adjustment function (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Yoza, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications
  • Place of Presentation: Oslo, Norway
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-30
• [Presentation] Inversion / Non-Inversion Reconfiguration Scheme for a 0.18 Um CMOS Process Optically Reconfigurable Gate Array VLSI (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Watanabe, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • Place of Presentation: Boise, USA
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-21
• [Presentation] 0.18 um CMOS process high-sensitive differential optically reconfigurable gate array VLSI (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Watanabe, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI
  • Place of Presentation: Amherst, USA
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-06
• [Presentation] Detection and compensation methods of alignment errors between a programmable optically reconfigurable gate array and its writer system (2012)
  • Author(s): S. Kubota, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: National Aerospace & Electronics Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Dayton, USA
  • Year and Date: 2012-07-25
• [Presentation] Optical configuration acceleration on a new optically reconfigurable gate array VLSI using a negative logic implementation (2012)
  • Author(s): R. Moriwaki, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Conference on engineering of reconfigurable systems and algorithms
  • Place of Presentation: Las Vegas, USA
  • Year and Date: 2012-07-17
• [Presentation] A 4-configuration Context Fiber - linked Optically Reconfigurable Gate Array (2012)
  • Author(s): Y. Ueno, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: OptoElectronics and Communications Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Busan, Korea
  • Year and Date: 2012-07-05
• [Presentation] A 16 - configuration-context dynamic optically reconfigurable gate array with a dependable laser array (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Yoza and M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems
  • Place of Presentation: Nuremberg, Germany
  • Year and Date: 2012-06-27
• [Presentation] FPGA Connect6 Solver with Hardware Sort Units (2012)
  • Author(s): R. Moriwaki, T. Yoza, Y. Kamikubo, Y. Torigai, T. Watanabe, Y. Aoyama, M. Seo, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies
  • Place of Presentation: Okinawa, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-06-01
• [Presentation] 0.18 um CMOS process high-sensitive optically reconfigurable gate array VLSI (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Watanabe, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies
  • Place of Presentation: Okinawa, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-06-01
• [Presentation] High speed - low power optical configuration on an ORGA with a phase-modulation type holographic memory (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Watanabe, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Shanghai, China
  • Year and Date: 2012-05-21
• [Presentation] Triple module redundancy of a laser array driver circuit for optically reconfigurable gate arrays (2012)
  • Author(s): T. Watanabe, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing
  • Place of Presentation: CUHK, Hong Kong
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-23
• [Presentation] Mono-instruction computer on a dynamically reconfigurable gate array (2012)
  • Author(s): Y. Nihira, M, Watanabe
  • Organizer: Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies
  • Place of Presentation: Beppu, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-08
• [Presentation] A full dynamically reconfigurable vision-chip system including a lens-array (2012)
  • Author(s): Y. Kamikubo, M. Watanabe, S. Kawahito
  • Organizer: Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies
  • Place of Presentation: Beppu, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-03-08
• [Presentation] Binary MEMS optically reconfigurable gate array for an artificial brain system (2012)
  • Author(s): Y. Yamaji, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics
  • Place of Presentation: Beppu, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2012-01-16
• [Presentation] An FPGA Connect6 Solver with a Two-Stage Pipelined Evaluation (2011)
  • Author(s): T. Watanabe, R. Moriwaki, Y. Yamaji, Y. Kamikubo, Y. Torigai, Y. Nihira, T. Yoza, Y. Ueno, Y. Aoyama, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology
  • Place of Presentation: New Delhi, India
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-14
• [Presentation] Triple module redundancy scheme on an optically reconfigurable gate array (2011)
  • Author(s): Y. Torigai, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: International SoC Design Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Jeju, Korea
  • Year and Date: 2011-10-18
• [Presentation] Full liquid crystal spatial light modulator writer system for a programmable optically reconfigurable gate array (2011)
  • Author(s): S. Kubota, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: MICROOPTICS CONFERENCE
  • Place of Presentation: Sendai, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2011-10-02
• [Presentation] A 144-configuration context MEMS optically reconfigurable gate array (2011)
  • Author(s): Y. Yamaji, M. Watanabe
  • Organizer: IEEE International SOC Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-28
• [Presentation] Dependable optically reconfigurable gate array with a phase-modulation type holographic memory (2011)
  • Author(s): Taipei, Taiwan
  • Organizer: International conference on Field-Programmable Logic and its Applications
  • Place of Presentation: Chania, Crete, Greece
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-05
• [Book] Reconfiguration (2013)
  • Author(s): M. Watanabe
  • Total Pages: 605-627
  • Publisher: High - Performance Computing Based on High-Speed Dynamic Reconfiguration
• [Remarks]
  • URL: http://www.ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp/~tmwatan/