GPU accelerated processing of astronomical high frame-rate videosequences

Stanislav Vítek; Jan Švihlík; Lukáš Krasula; Karel Fliegel; Petr Páta

doi:10.1117/12.2188610

22 September 2015 GPU accelerated processing of astronomical high frame-rate videosequences

Stanislav Vítek, Jan Švihlík, Lukáš Krasula, Karel Fliegel, Petr Páta

Proceedings Volume 9599, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII; 95992L (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188610
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Astronomical instruments located around the world are producing an incredibly large amount of possibly interesting scientific data. Astronomical research is expanding into large and highly sensitive telescopes. Total volume of data rates per night of operations also increases with the quality and resolution of state-of-the-art CCD/CMOS detectors. Since many of the ground-based astronomical experiments are placed in remote locations with limited access to the Internet, it is necessary to solve the problem of the data storage. It mostly means that current data acquistion, processing and analyses algorithm require review. Decision about importance of the data has to be taken in very short time. This work deals with GPU accelerated processing of high frame-rate astronomical video-sequences, mostly originating from experiment MAIA (Meteor Automatic Imager and Analyser), an instrument primarily focused to observing of faint meteoric events with a high time resolution. The instrument with price bellow 2000 euro consists of image intensifier and gigabite ethernet camera running at 61 fps. With resolution better than VGA the system produces up to 2TB of scientifically valuable video data per night. Main goal of the paper is not to optimize any GPU algorithm, but to propose and evaluate parallel GPU algorithms able to process huge amount of video-sequences in order to delete all uninteresting data.

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Stanislav Vítek, Jan Švihlík, Lukáš Krasula, Karel Fliegel, and Petr Páta "GPU accelerated processing of astronomical high frame-rate videosequences", Proc. SPIE 9599, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVIII, 95992L (22 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188610

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