FEMIP: A high performance FPGA-based features extractor & matcher for space applications
Stefano Di Carlo, Giulio Gambardella, P. Prinetto, Daniele Rolfo, Pascal Trotta, Piegiorgio Lanza · 2013
Nowadays, Video-Based Navigation (VBN) is increasingly used in space-applications. The future space-missions will include this approach during the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) phase, in order to increase the landing point precision. This paper presents FEMIP: a high performance FPGA-based features extractor and matcher tuned for space applications. It outperforms the current state-of-the-art, ensuring a higher throughput and a lower hardware resources usage.