Improving Performance and Quality thru Hardware Reconfiguration: Potentials and Adaptive Object Tracking Case Study

Reconfigurable hardware devices are envisioned as the proper platform to implement multimedia applications, providing both real time performance and dynamic adaptability for the application. In this paper, we discuss the issues involved in using reconfigurable hardware devices for multimedia applications. The ideas and approach are then applied to a collaborative object tracking system that has been built as part of our work. We justify the need for dynamic adaptation of the system through examples. Experimental results on a set of scenes advocate the fact that our dynamically adaptive system works effectively for different scenes and scenario of events, and it outperforms traditional pure software or hardware implementations.