A significant dissemination opportunity for Morpheus, organizing a presentation at the International Symposium of Systems-on-Chip that on November 2007.

You can find details on the Symposium at the Tampere University web site
as well as the technical program. The International Symposium on System-on-Chip is a well established venue, very oriented to industrial exploitation of research outcomes.

Details about the contribution from MORPHEUS are shown below:

TUE Nov. 20
SESSION Tue Pm4: Sensing and Image Processing SoC
Time: 16:05  INTELLIGENT CAMERAS AND 
EMBEDDED RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING:
A CASE STUDY ON MOTION DETECTION
Claudio Mucci, Luca Vanzolini, Antonio Deledda,
ARCES - University of Bologna, Italy; 
Fabio Campi, STMicroelectronics,Italy; 
Gerard Gaillat, THALES Optronique S.A., France

Abstract

Image processing for intelligent cameras like those used in video surveillance applications implies computational demanding algorithms activated in function of non predictable events, such as the content of the image or user requests. For such applications, hardwired acceleration must be restricted to a minimum subset of kernels, due to the increasing NREs when application update becomes necessary. Embedded reconfigurable processors, coupling in the same computing engine a general purpose embedded processor and field-programmable fabrics, provide an appealing trade-off point between pure software and dedicated hardware acceleration. As a case-study, this paper presents the implementation of a set of image processing operators utilized for motion detection on the DREAM adaptive DSP. With respect to pure software solutions, the proposed implementation achieves a performance improvement of 2-3 orders of magnitude, while retaining the same degree of programmability and the same economical perspectives from the end-user point of view of processor-based approaches.