PM: An Operating System Coordinated High Performance Communication Library
HPCN Europe '97 Proceedings of the International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking
Real-Time Image Processing on IEEE-1394-based PC Cluster
IPDPS '01 Proceedings of the 15th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
A Real-Time Distributed Video Image Processing System on PC-Cluster
ParNum '99 Proceedings of the 4th International ACPC Conference Including Special Tracks on Parallel Numerics and Parallel Computing in Image Processing, Video Processing, and Multimedia: Parallel Computation
CAMP '00 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception (CAMP'00)
A Distributed System for Real-Time Volume Reconstruction
CAMP '00 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception (CAMP'00)
Real-Time Computer Vision on PC-Cluster and Its Application to Real-Time Motion Capture
CAMP '00 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception (CAMP'00)
The ThreadMill architecture for stream-oriented human communication analysis applications
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
Vision-Based Motion Capture of Interacting Multiple People
ICIAP '09 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing
Real-Time free-viewpoint video generation using multiple cameras and a PC-Cluster
PCM'04 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - Volume Part I
ACCV'06 Proceedings of the 7th Asian conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part II
Real-time voxel-based visual hull reconstruction
Microprocessors & Microsystems
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In this paper, we present RPV-II, a stream-based real-time parallel image processing environment on distributed parallel computers, or PC-cluster, and its performance evaluation using a realistic application. The system is based on our previous PC-cluster system for real-time image processing and computer vision, and is designed to overcome the problems of our previous system, one of which is long latency when we use pipelined structures. This becomes a serious problem when we apply the system to interactive applications. To make the latency shorter, we have introduced stream data transfer, or fine grained data transfer, to RPV-II. One frame data is divided into small elements such as pixels, lines and voxels, and we have developed efficient real-time data transfer mechanism of those. Using RPV-II we have developed a real-time volume reconstruction system by visual volume intersection method, and we have measured the system performance. Experimental results show better performance than that of our previous system, RPV.