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Hardware aspects of a real-time surveillance system

Kristensen, Fredrik LU ; Hedberg, Hugo LU ; Jiang, Hongtu LU ; Nilsson, Peter LU and Öwall, Viktor LU (2006) Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS 2006) p.161-168
Abstract
This paper presents the implementation of an automated digital video surveillance system on an FPGA platformfor real-time performance. To achieve real-time performance, the system includes hardware accelerators for video segmentation, morphology operations, labeling and feature extraction while tracking is handled in software. By implementing a complete system on a hardware platform, bottlenecks in computational complexity and memory requirements can be identified and addressed. A memory access reduction scheme for the video segmentation part that utilizes pixel locality is proposed which shows the potential of reducing accesses with > 60%. Furthermore, a low complexity morphology architecture with low memory requirements is presented... (More)
This paper presents the implementation of an automated digital video surveillance system on an FPGA platformfor real-time performance. To achieve real-time performance, the system includes hardware accelerators for video segmentation, morphology operations, labeling and feature extraction while tracking is handled in software. By implementing a complete system on a hardware platform, bottlenecks in computational complexity and memory requirements can be identified and addressed. A memory access reduction scheme for the video segmentation part that utilizes pixel locality is proposed which shows the potential of reducing accesses with > 60%. Furthermore, a low complexity morphology architecture with low memory requirements is presented together with a labeling unit based on a contour tracing technique. Some thoughts on which features that can be extracted throughout the system are discussed. (Less)
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161 - 168
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS 2006)
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Graz, Austria
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2006-05-13
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978-0-9553003-0-1
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English
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