Hardware development and implementation of an object tracking algorithm

Author

Mahmoud, Imbaby I. ; El-Halym, Howida A Abd ; Habib, S. E -ID

Author_Institution

Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo Univ., Egypt

fYear

2003

fDate

9-11 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

330

Lastpage

334

Abstract

This paper presents hardware development and implementation of an algorithm for object tracking. The presented parallel hardware implementation is necessary for real time tracking. The parallelism has been accomplished by implementing the computational-intensive Block Matching Algorithm (BMA) via a semisystolic array of non-programmable Processor Elements (PEs). This paper also, describes an efficient architecture for maximum repetition module for calculating the moving object centroid and its motion vector. The design is described using Synthesizable VHDL code under Xilinx foundation series 2.1, CAD environment.

Keywords

CAD; hardware description languages; motion estimation; object detection; tracking; CAD environment; Xilinx foundation series; algorithm; computational intensive block matching algorithm; hardware development; motion vector; moving object centroid; nonprogrammable processor elements; object tracking; parallelism; real time tracking; semisystolic array; synthesizable VHDL code; Concurrent computing; Design automation; Hardware; Intelligent systems; Motion estimation; Parallel processing; Power engineering and energy; Systolic arrays; Tracking; Video surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics, 2003. ICM 2003. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

977-05-2010-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICM.2003.1287825

Filename

1287825