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A Dynamic Reconfigurable Hardware/Software Architecture for Object Tracking in Video Streams

EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems20062006:082564

https://doi.org/10.1155/ES/2006/82564

©  F. Mühlbauer and C. Bobda 2006

Received: 15 December 2005

Accepted: 11 June 2006

Published: 19 October 2006

Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of a feature tracker on an embedded reconfigurable hardware system. Contrary to other works, the focus here is on the efficient hardware/software partitioning of the feature tracker algorithm, a viable data flow management, as well as an efficient use of memory and processor features. The implementation is done on a Xilinx Spartan 3 evaluation board and the results provided show the superiority of our implementation compared to the other works.

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Authors’ Affiliations

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Department of Computer Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern

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© F. Mühlbauer and C. Bobda 2006

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