Combining Flash Memory and FPGAs to Efficiently Implement a Massively Parallel Algorithm for Content-Based Image Retrieval

• Published in: Reconfigurable Computing: Architectures, Tools and Applications pp. 247 - 258
• Main Authors: Chikhi, Rayan, Derrien, Steven, Noumsi, Auguste, Quinton, Patrice
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Distance Computation; Hardware Architecture; Image Database; Local Descriptor; Query Image

With ever larger and more affordable storage capabilities, individuals and companies can now collect huge amounts of multimedia data, especially images. Searching such databases is still an open problem, known as content-based image retrieval (CBIR). In this paper, we present a hardware architecture...