Hardware implementation of IC-PCNN for the color image segmentation

Abstract

An image processing using the Pulse Coupled Neural Network(PCNN) has been proposed and well studied recently. To achieve a color image processing using the PCNN scheme, authors had been proposed the IC-PCNN as an extended model of the PCNN. In our previous paper, the successful results of color image segmentation had been shown by numerical experiments. This paper describes the hardware implementation of the Inhibitory Connected Pulse Coupled Neural Network(IC-PCNN) in FPGA. From the results, we evaluate the possibility of our IC-PCNN for the embedded system.