Aerial Photographic System Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

While many software applications support JPEG image compression, few FPGA applications support it, and those that do are very expensive. Currently, software implementations of JPEG compression use many operations, and adding an algorithm slows performance. Our system implements JPEG compression using an FPGA, which improves the compression rate and operation speed. We implement JPEG compression using the Nios® II soft-core processor, which also performs aerial photography on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Figure 1 shows the overview of the project.

Aerial Photographic System Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle




Second Prize


Aerial Photographic System Using an
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Institution: Chungbuk National University

Participants: Hyuk Joong Kwon, Woo Joong Kim, Jang Geun Kim, Sang Bae Park

Instructor: Professor Jung-Kwan Seo




Design Introduction
While many software applications support JPEG image compression, few FPGA applications support
it, and those that do are very expensive. Currently, software implementations of JPEG compression use
many operations, and adding an algorithm slows performance. Our system implements JPEG
compression using an FPGA, which improves the compression rate and operation speed. We implement
JPEG compression using the Nios II soft