An efficient algorithm and FPGA implementation of video luminance transient improvement

<正> In this paper,a high-performance and low-complexity luminance transient improvement (LTI) algorithmis proposed and efficiently implemented on field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices,whichcan be widely used to enhance the sharpness of digital video.The proposed algorithm generates the correctionsignal by using the difference of the outputs of two Gaussian filters with different variances,andthen modulates the correction signal adaptively according to the local contrast information of video frames.A 2-D min/max nonlinear filter is employed to suppress overshoots around edges.The proposed algorithmis thoroughly confirmed by experiments and compared with other algorithms on images,which producessteeper edges and better visual quality while suppressing noise and artifacts.And the hardware architecturesuitable for FPGA implementation is optimized based on the property of the algorithm and proves tobe effective and efficient in many respects,such as resource consumption,performance and reconfigurability.The specific implementation details on both Xilinx and Altera FPGA devices are also described inthis paper.