EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems 
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 82564, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/ES/2006/82564

A Dynamic Reconfigurable Hardware/Software Architecture for Object Tracking in Video Streams

Felix Mühlbauer and Christophe Bobda

 Department of Computer Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern, Gottlieb-Daimler Street 48, Kaiserslautern 67653, Germany
Received 15 December 2005; Revised 8 June 2006; Accepted 11 June 2006

Abstract

This paper presents the design and implementation of a feature tracker on an embedded reconfigurable hardware system. Contrary to other works, the focus here is on the efficient hardware/software partitioning of the feature tracker algorithm, a viable data flow management, as well as an efficient use of memory and processor features. The implementation is done on a Xilinx Spartan 3 evaluation board and the results provided show the superiority of our implementation compared to the other works.