A New Real Time Object Segmentation and Tracking Algorithm and its Parallel Hardware Architecture

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-266

  Meribout, Mahmound ^a   Nakanishi, Mamoru ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hardware software dessign; Parallel hardware for video processing; Real time object segmentation; Real time object tracking; Video processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HARDWARE-SOFTWARE DESIGN; PARALLEL HARDWARE FOR VIDEO PROCESSING; REAL-TIME OBJECT SEGMENTATION; REAL-TIME OBJECT TRACKING;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 14844356548     PISSN: 13875485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11265-005-4843-8     Document Type: Article

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