FPGA Based Camera Control System

Video surveillance is being widely utilized in the world for various applications like crowd control, visitor monitoring, prevent theft and visual evidence for investigation. To increase the overall safety and security high-speed real-time monitoring systems are essential. FPGAs are suitable for these tasks as they have massive parallel processing capabilities. This paper presents the design and implementation of a video surveillance system which uses Zedboard and OV7670 camera. Zedboard contains Zynq-7020 All Programmable SoC which is a combination of ARM Cortex-A9 Processing System (PS) and Atrix-7series Programmable Logic (PL). The camera is mounted on two servo motors for pan and tilt movement to represent a surveillance camera. Motor control is done in the Processing System and the video footage captured by OV7670 camera is processed in the Programmable Logic and displayed on a VGA monitor. To implement this system, Xilinx Vivado and SDK 2015.2 are used.