Hardware development and implementation of an object tracking algorithm

Abstract

This paper presents hardware development and implementation of an algorithm for object tracking. The presented parallel hardware implementation is necessary for real time tracking. The parallelism has been accomplished by implementing the computational-intensive Block Matching Algorithm (BMA) via a semisystolic array of non-programmable Processor Elements (PEs). This paper also, describes an efficient architecture for maximum repetition module for calculating the moving object centroid and its motion vector. The design is described using Synthesizable VHDL code under Xilinx foundation series 2.1, CAD environment.