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oic. I am thinking to design a JPEG and JPEG2000 encoder and decoder in FPGA, but I need to capture the image. I am thinking to capture the raw image using webcam, also my next step is having some motion detection probably using webcam too.
Besides webcam, is there any cheap camera that can be used with FPGA to capture image or video?
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Here is one appnote from Altera which you may find interesting:
http://www.altera.com/literature/an/an427.pdf As others have suggested, using a USB webcam the project quickly becomes "making USB work" and not about your algorithm development. NTSC/PAL is easier than USB, but you may want DVI/HDMI for increased resolution. Either of those formats have the added benefit that during development, your "camera" can be a VCR/DVD player so that your inputs are identical during your debug.
As far as hardware platforms go, the Terasic VEEK would have been ideal, but looks like it is no longer available. So you will likely end up purchasing at least one dev kit and one daughter card. Terasic has several options:
http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=65
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