Presentation 2016-05-20
Evaluation of an OpenCL-Based FPGA Platform for Particle Filter
Masanori Hariyama, Shunsuke Tatsumi, Norikazu Ikoma,
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Abstract(in English) Particle filter is one promising method to estimate the internal states in dynamical systems, and can be used for various applications such as visual tracking and mobile-robot localization. The major drawback of particle filter is its large computational amount, which causes long computational-time and large power-consumption. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes an Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform for particle filter. The platform is designed using the OpenCL-based design tool that allows users to develop using a high-level programming language based on C and to change designs easily for various applications. The implementation results demonstrate the proposed FPGA implementation is 106 times faster than the CPU one, and the power-delay product of the FPGA implementation is 1.1% of the CPU one. Moreover, implementations for three different systems are shown to demonstrate flexibility of the proposed platform.
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Keyword(in English) particle filter / Monte Carlo method / parallel processing / OpenCL / OpenCL
Paper # RECONF2016-22
Date of Issue 2016-05-12 (RECONF)

Conference Information
Committee RECONF
Conference Date 2016/5/19(2days)
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Place (in English) FUJITSU LAB.
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Reconfigurable Systems, etc.
Chair Minoru Watanabe(Shizuoka Univ.)
Vice Chair Masato Motomura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Yuichiro Shibata(Nagasaki Univ.)
Secretary Masato Motomura(Toshiba) / Yuichiro Shibata(Univ. of Tsukuba)
Assistant Kazuya Tanikagawa(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Takefumi Miyoshi(e-trees.Japan)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Systems
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Evaluation of an OpenCL-Based FPGA Platform for Particle Filter
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) particle filter
Keyword(2) Monte Carlo method
Keyword(3) parallel processing
Keyword(4) OpenCL
Keyword(5) OpenCL
1st Author's Name Masanori Hariyama
1st Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Shunsuke Tatsumi
2nd Author's Affiliation Tohoku University(Tohoku Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Norikazu Ikoma
3rd Author's Affiliation Nippon Institute of Technology(Nippon Institute of Technology)
Date 2016-05-20
Paper # RECONF2016-22
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) RECONF-53
Page pp.pp.109-113(RECONF),
#Pages 5
Date of Issue 2016-05-12 (RECONF)