Power And Quality-Aware Image Processing Soft-Resilience Using Online Multi-Objective Gas

Keywords

Autonomous operation; DCT; Discrete cosine transform; Evolvable hardware; FPGA devices; Genetic algorithms; Image processing; Online reconfiguration; Power-aware; Quality-aware; Runtime multiobjective optimisation; Soft-resilience; Support vector machine; SVM

Abstract

A self-aware signal processing architecture is proposed based on adaptive resource escalation which is guided by a multi-objective genetic algorithm (GA). The GA prioritises tasks within a reconfigurable hardware fabric to maintain the quality-of-service and power consumption objectives. Attainment of these objectives is subject to the intrinsic reliability and performance of the computational elements in the resource pool. A health metric at the application layer, such as peak-signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) measurement in a discrete cosine transform (DCT) or measure of confidence in a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, is used to assess throughput performance. When performance decreases beyond acceptable tolerances, the primary objective is to maximally recover output quality. The secondary objective is to minimise power consumption which also depends upon the input signal characteristics, in addition to the utilised computational resources. An adaptive guidance function for GA-driven recovery is proposed and validated for these objectives. It retains healthy processing elements in the throughput data path to gracefully-degrade throughput by optimising resource selection.

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Publication Title

International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics

Volume

5

Issue

1

Number of Pages

72-98

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCVR.2015.067154

Socpus ID

84922325058 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84922325058

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