This paper focuses on real-time pedestrian detection onField Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) using the Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) descriptor in combination with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification as a basic method. We propose to process image data at twice the pixel frequency and to normalize blocks with the L1-Sqrt-norm resulting in an efficient resource utilization. This implementation allows for parallel computation of different scales. Combined with a time-multiplex approach we increase multiscale capabilities beyond resource limitations. We are able to process 64 high resolution images (1920 × 1080 pixels) per second at 18 scales with a latency of less than 150 μs. 1.79 million HOG descriptors and their SVM classifications can be calculated per second and per scale, which outperforms current FPGA implementations by a factor of 4.

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The thermal load of the ablation in high-speed laser corneal refractive surgery was minimized using a computer algorithm to control the peak temperature to avoid corneal collagen denaturation with minimal compromise on treatment duration.

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