title: A Real-Time High Performance Computation Architecture for Multiple Moving Target Tracking Based on Wide-Area Motion Imagery via Cloud and Graphic Processing Units.
abstract: This paper presents the first attempt at combining Cloud with Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) in a complementary manner within the framework of a real-time high performance computation architecture for the application of detecting and tracking multiple moving targets based on Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI). More specifically, the GPU and Cloud Moving Target Tracking (GC-MTT) system applied a front-end web based server to perform the interaction with Hadoop and highly parallelized computation functions based on the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA©). The introduced multiple moving target detection and tracking method can be extended to other applications such as pedestrian tracking, group tracking, and Patterns of Life (PoL) analysis. The cloud and GPUs based computing provides an efficient real-time target recognition and tracking approach as compared to methods when the work flow is applied using only central processing units (CPUs). The simultaneous tracking and recognition results demonstrate that a GC-MTT based approach provides drastically improved tracking with low frame rates over realistic conditions.
authors.affiliation: Intelligent Fusion Technology, Germantown, MD 20876, USA. kui.liu@intfusiontech.com.
authors.forename: Kui
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Intelligent Fusion Technology, Germantown, MD 20876, USA. sixiao.wei@intfusiontech.com.
authors.forename: Sixiao
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Intelligent Fusion Technology, Germantown, MD 20876, USA. zhijiang.chen@intfusiontech.com.
authors.forename: Zhijiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Intelligent Fusion Technology, Germantown, MD 20876, USA. bin.jia@intfusiontech.com.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.affiliation: Intelligent Fusion Technology, Germantown, MD 20876, USA. gchen@intfusiontech.com.
authors.forename: Genshe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. hbling@temple.edu.
authors.forename: Haibin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ling
authors.affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome, NY 13441, USA. carolyn.sheaff@us.af.mil.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sheaff
authors.affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, Rome, NY 13441, USA. erik.blasch.1@us.af.mil.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Blasch
keywords: cloud infrastructure; high performance computation; target detection; target tracking