Title :
FPGA Based Real-Time Target Tracking on a Mobile Platform
Author :
Saeed, Ahsan ; Amin, Adeel ; Saleem, Shehzad
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., NED Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Karachi, Pakistan
Abstract :
An embedded video processing system is explained which tracks an object in real-time through a parallel processing architecture designed for an FPGA. Mechanical assembly of the particular mobile robot we utilized is also discussed, although the system can easily be ported to any mobile platform. The video processing is completely based on point function, which allows for straight-forward parallelization. The video processing system can be used to follow any selected target on the basis of its chrominance properties (Chrome Blue-Cb and Chrome Red-Cr). The adaptability of the robot for different lighting conditions is another key contribution.
Keywords :
embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; mobile robots; parallel architectures; robot vision; target tracking; visual servoing; FPGA based real-time target tracking; chrominance properties; embedded video processing system; mobile platform; mobile robot; parallel processing architecture; point function; straight-forward parallelization; Embedded image processing; FPGA in robotics; machine vision; visual servoing;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bhopal
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8653-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4254-6
DOI :
10.1109/CICN.2010.110
