Other Applicaitons

There is a class of vision impaired people who would benefit from good edge detection algorithms. Thick black lines on their glasses would help them navigate through doors, and follow the sidewalk. The Canny and other edge detector algorithms detect fine lines, but are not so good at recognizing the major features needed to support this functionality. FPGAs can use more computationally intensive algorithms to accomplish this task.

Stereoscopic vision currently uses computationally expensive disparity maps. Edge detection followed by stereoscopic analysis may reduce computational complexity, and run on less expensive FPGAs.