OVAD (Fraś et al. in Vision based systems for UAV applications, Springer International Publishing, pp. 123–136 [1]; Kwiatkowski et al. in Recent advances in electrical engineering and computer science, pp. 58–61 [2]) is a device, which is purposed for multi directional video acquisition. Further development of the device includes hardware implementation of time-absorbing calculations, connected
... [Show full abstract] with video stream processing, with utilization of FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). The paper presents the results of research on the problem of real time dense optical flow estimation. Furthermore, the described results are connected to the problem of parallel processing and hardware acceleration using FPGA. Proposed solution may be found as useful in many applications, both civilian and military and proves utility of FPGA based solutions in real time video processing.