Real-time visual tracker by stream processing: Simultaneous and fast 3d tracking of multiple faces in video sequences by using a particle filter

Journal of Signal Processing Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-295

  Mateo Lozano, Oscar ^a,b   Otsuka, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

CMP; GPGPU; Particle filtering; Real time systems; Stream processing; Video tracking

Indexed keywords

CMP; GPGPU; PARTICLE FILTERING; STREAM PROCESSING; VIDEO TRACKING;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR FILTERING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 68949220811     PISSN: 19398018     EISSN: 19398115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11265-008-0250-2     Document Type: Article

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