Title
Real-time multitarget tracking for sensor-based sorting - A new implementation of the auction algorithm for graphics processing units.
Abstract
Utilizing parallel algorithms is an established way of increasing performance in systems that are bound to real-time restrictions. Sensor-based sorting is a machine vision application for which firm real-time requirements need to be respected in order to reliably remove potentially harmful entities from a material feed. Recently, employing a predictive tracking approach using multitarget tracking in order to decrease the error in the physical separation in optical sorting has been proposed. For implementations that use hard associations between measurements and tracks, a linear assignment problem has to be solved for each frame recorded by a camera. The auction algorithm can be utilized for this purpose, which also has the advantage of being well suited for parallel architectures. In this paper, an improved implementation of this algorithm for a graphics processing unit (GPU) is presented. The resulting algorithm is implemented in both an OpenCL and a CUDA based environment. By using an optimized data structure, the presented algorithm outperforms recently proposed implementations in terms of speed while retaining the quality of output of the algorithm. Furthermore, memory requirements are significantly decreased, which is important for embedded systems. Experimental results are provided for two different GPUs and six datasets. It is shown that the proposed approach is of particular interest for applications dealing with comparatively large problem sizes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s11554-017-0735-y
JOURNAL OF REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Linear assignment problem,Sensor-based sorting,Parallel algorithm,Graphics processing unit
Journal
16.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6.0
1861-8200
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georg Maier1328.24
Florian Pfaff2159.01
Matthias Wagner300.34
Christoph Pieper411.04
Robin Gruna5144.50
Benjamin Noack616823.73
Harald Kruggel-Emden711.71
Thomas Längle811.37
Uwe D. Hanebeck9944133.52
Siegmar Wirtz1000.34
V. Scherer1112.05
Jürgen Beyerer1231575.37