FPGA/soft-processor based real-time object tracking system

Author

Ali, Usman ; Malik, M.B. ; Munawar, Khalid

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Rawalpindi

fYear

2009

fDate

1-3 April 2009

Firstpage

33

Lastpage

37

Abstract

This paper presents a low cost FPGA based solution for a real-time moving object tracking system. A specialized architecture is presented based on a soft RISC processor capable of running kernel based mean shift tracking algorithm. The system includes a frame grabber unit that stores the video frame in DDR RAM using direct memory access, a video display unit to monitor the tracking statistics and a soft processor capable of running mean shift tracking algorithm within the required time constraint.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; file organisation; image motion analysis; object detection; random-access storage; reduced instruction set computing; statistical analysis; tracking; DDR RAM; FPGA based object tracking system; direct memory access; frame grabber unit; kernel based mean shift tracking algorithm; soft RISC processor; time constraint; tracking statistics; video frame; Costs; Displays; Field programmable gate arrays; Kernel; Monitoring; Random access memory; Read-write memory; Real time systems; Reduced instruction set computing; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Programmable Logic, 2009. SPL. 5th Southern Conference on

Conference_Location

Sao Carlos

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3847-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPL.2009.4914888

Filename

4914888