Movement Tracking in Terrain Conditions Accelerated with CUDA

Abstract

The paper presents a solution to the problem of movement tracking in images acquired from video cameras monitoring outside terrain. The solution is resistant to such adverse factors as: leaves fluttering, grass waving, smoke or fog, movement of clouds etc. The presented solution is based on well known image processing methods, nevertheless the key was the use of an appropriate conduct procedure. In order to obtain a real-time system the CUDA technology was involved.

Innovative GPU accelerated algorithm for fast minimum convex hulls computation

“…Programming model provides for consolidation of threads into blocks, and blocks -into a grid, which is performed simultaneously. Accordingly, the key to effective usage of GPU hardware capabilities is algorithm parallelization into hundreds of blocks performing independent calculations on the video card [24].…”