Title
Accelerating Adaptive Background Modeling on Low-Power Integrated GPUs
Abstract
Background modeling is a key initial step in many video surveillance applications. As more and more smart cameras are deployed for surveillance tasks across the globe, an efficient background modeling technique is required that balances accuracy, speed, and power. Due to its high parallel computational characteristics, robust adaptive background modeling has been implemented on GPUs with significant performance improvements over CPUs. However, these implementations are infeasible in embedded applications due to the high power ratings of the targeted general-purpose GPU platforms. We propose implementing a fast, adaptive background modeling algorithm on a low-power integrated GPU, the NVIDIA ION, with thermal design power (TDP) of only 12 watts. This paper focuses on how data and thread-level parallelism is exploited and memory access patterns are optimized to target this algorithm to a low-power GPU. We achieve a frame rate of 100fps on a full resolution VGA (640x480) frame. This is a 6X speed-up compared to a CPU platform of comparable TDP.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICPPW.2012.77
Parallel Processing Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
embedded systems,graphics processing units,multi-threading,video cameras,video surveillance,6X speed-up,NVIDIA ION,TDP,adaptive background modeling algorithm,embedded applications,full resolution VGA frame,general-purpose GPU platforms,high parallel computational characteristics,high power ratings,low-power integrated GPU,memory access patterns,performance improvements,robust adaptive background modeling,smart cameras,thermal design power,thread-level parallelism,video surveillance applications,background modeling,low-power integrated GPU,multimodal mean,video surveillance
Kernel (linear algebra),Multithreading,Thermal design power,Computer science,Instruction set,Parallel computing,Smart camera,Frame rate,Computer hardware,Graphics processing unit,Video Graphics Array
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-2016
978-1-4673-2509-7
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shoaib Azmat160.52
Linda Wills2636.20
Scott Wills3444.93