Title
GP-GPU Implementation of the "Local Rank Differences" Image Feature
Abstract
A currently popular trend in object detection and pattern recognition is usage of statistical classifiers, namely AdaBoost and its modifications. The speed performance of these classifiers largely depends on the low level image features they are using: both on the amount of information the feature provides and the processor time of its evaluation. Local Rank Differences is an image feature that is alternative to commonly used haar wavelets. It is suitable for implementation in programmable (FPGA) or specialized (ASIC) hardware, but -as this paper shows -it performs very well on graphics hardware (GPU) used in general purpose manner (GPGPU, namely CUDA in this case) as well. The paper discusses the LRD features and their properties, describes an experimental implementation of the LRD in graphics hardware using CUDA, presents its empirical performance measures compared to alter native approaches, suggests several notes on practical usage of LRD and proposes directions for future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-642-02345-3_37
ICCVG
Keywords
Field
DocType
lrd feature,paper shows,speed performance,image feature,gp-gpu implementation,experimental implementation,graphics hardware,local rank differences,empirical performance,practical usage,low level image,image features,pattern recognition
Computer vision,Object detection,AdaBoost,Graphics hardware,Computer science,CUDA,Feature (computer vision),Field-programmable gate array,Artificial intelligence,General-purpose computing on graphics processing units,Haar wavelet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5337
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adam Herout124835.39
Radovan Josth230.47
Pavel Zemcik3667.58
Michal Hradis413214.19