Investigation of Threading Building Blocks Framework on Real Time Visual Object Tracking Algorithm

Abstract

Object tracking plays important roles in various applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, augmented reality and robotics. This paper presents an investigation on multi-threading framework capability for color-based object tracking applications. A multi-threading framework based on Threading Building Blocks (TBB) was implemented on a multi-core system to enhance the image processing performance on a real-time visual object tracking algorithm. Intel Parallel Studio was used to implement this parallel framework. The performance between sequential and multi-threading framework was evaluated and compared. We demonstrated the multi-threading framework was approximately two times faster when compared to the sequential framework in our experiments.