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Particle filtering is widely used in numerous nonlinear applications which require reconfigurability, fast prototyping, and online parallel signal processing. The emerging computing platform, CUDA, may be regarded as the most appealing platform for such implementation. However, there are not yet literatures exploring how to utilize CUDA for particle filters. This parer aims to provide two […]

The advent of GPUs with programmable shaders on handheld devices has motivated embedded application developers to utilize GPU to offload computationally intensive tasks and relieve the burden from embedded CPU. In this work, we propose an image processing toolkit on handheld GPU with programmable shaders using OpenGL ES 2.0 API. By using the image processing […]

As one of the most popular many-core architecture, GPUs have illustrated power in many non-graphic applications. Traditional general purpose computing systems tend to integrate GPU as the co-processor to accelerate parallel computing tasks. Meanwhile, GPUs also result in high power consumption, which accounts for a large proportion of the total system power consumption. In this […]

Modern GPUs open a completely new field to optimize embarrassingly parallel algorithms. Implementing an algorithm on a GPU confronts the programmer with a new set of challenges for program optimization. Some of the most notable ones are isolating the part of the algorithm that can be optimized to run on the GPU; tuning the program […]

Recently there was an active development of parallel programming methods concerning implementation of general-purpose algorithms on graphical processing units (GPUs). Using this specialized hardware allows increasing performance significantly, but requires low-level programming and understanding details of underlying hardware and software platform. Therefore there is a need for automating development process. This paper presents a technique […]

In this paper, we propose a real-time image-based rendering (IBR) system. It is specifically designed for photorealistic view synthesis at high-speed on the graphics processing unit (GPU). We steer the proposed IBR system design with two high-level ideas. First, for cost-effective IBR, as long as the synthesized views look visually plausible, the estimated disparity and […]

GPUs are at the fore-front of a radical transformation that is taking place in software design. The ability to process multiple data streams simultaneously is delivering substantial benefits to a large collection of domains. Depending on the application, these benefits can be expanded by utilizing the not-insignificant power of traditional CPUs. Multi-core CPUs with a […]

Many games are populated by synthetic humanoid actors that act as autonomous agents. The animation of humanoids in real-time applications is yet a challenge if the problem involves attaining a precise location in a virtual world (path-planning), and moving realistically according to its own personality, intentions and mood (motion planning). In this paper we present […]

It is compute-intensive to evaluate the probability of an observation sequence on a hidden Markov model. Some fast algorithms exit, the forward-backward procedure is the most popular one among them. The forward-backward procedure can save much computation, but its time complexity is N^2T, in other words, there is a high computational complexity in the algorithm. […]

Many system-level design tasks (e.g. timing analysis, hardware/software partitioning and design space exploration) involve computational kernels that are intractable (usually NP-hard). As a result, they involve high running times even for mid-sized problems. In this paper we explore the possibility of using commodity graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate such tasks that commonly arise in […]

We present in this paper our work regarding simulating a type of P system known as a spiking neural P system (SNP system) using graphics processing units (GPUs). GPUs, because of their architectural optimization for parallel computations, are well-suited for highly parallelizable problems. Due to the advent of general purpose GPU computing in recent years, […]

We present a method to couple particle-based fluid simulation methods such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and volume rendering in order to visualize the fluid. A volume is generated from the fluid’s implicit density field so volume raycasting can be performed to render the surface on the GPU. The volume generation algorithm is also implemented […]