TY - GEN
T1 - Real-time object tracking system on FPGAs
AU - Liu, Su
AU - Papakonstantinou, Alexandros
AU - Wang, Hongjun
AU - Chen, Deming
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Object tracking is an important task in computer vision applications. One of the crucial challenges is the realtime speed requirement. In this paper we implement an object tracking system in reconfigurable hardware using an efficient parallel architecture. In our implementation, we adopt a background subtraction based algorithm. The designed object tracker exploits hardware parallelism to achieve high system speed. We also propose a dual object region search technique to further boost the performance of our system under complex tracking conditions. For our hardware implementation we use the Altera Stratix III EP3SL340H1152C2 FPGA device. We compare the proposed FPGA-based implementation with the software implementation running on a 2.2 GHz processor. The observed speedup can reach more than 100X for complex video inputs.
AB - Object tracking is an important task in computer vision applications. One of the crucial challenges is the realtime speed requirement. In this paper we implement an object tracking system in reconfigurable hardware using an efficient parallel architecture. In our implementation, we adopt a background subtraction based algorithm. The designed object tracker exploits hardware parallelism to achieve high system speed. We also propose a dual object region search technique to further boost the performance of our system under complex tracking conditions. For our hardware implementation we use the Altera Stratix III EP3SL340H1152C2 FPGA device. We compare the proposed FPGA-based implementation with the software implementation running on a 2.2 GHz processor. The observed speedup can reach more than 100X for complex video inputs.
KW - Application acceleration
KW - FPGA
KW - Object tracking
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U2 - 10.1109/SAAHPC.2011.22
DO - 10.1109/SAAHPC.2011.22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80054981895
SN - 9780769544489
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, SAAHPC 2011
SP - 1
EP - 7
BT - Proceedings - 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, SAAHPC 2011
T2 - 2011 Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing, SAAHPC 2011
Y2 - 19 July 2011 through 20 July 2011
ER -