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Parallel Gesture Recognition with Soft Real-Time Guarantees

Marr, Stefan, Renaux, Thierry, Hoste, Lode, De Meuter, Wolfgang (2014) Parallel Gesture Recognition with Soft Real-Time Guarantees. Science of Computer Programming, 98 (2). pp. 159-183. ISSN 0167-6423. E-ISSN 1872-7964. (doi:10.1016/j.scico.2014.02.012) (KAR id:63833)

Abstract

Using imperative programming to process event streams, such as those generated by multi-touch devices and 3D cameras, has significant engineering drawbacks. Declarative approaches solve common problems but so far, they have not been able to scale on multicore systems while providing guaranteed response times. We propose PARTE, a parallel scalable complex event processing engine that allows for a declarative definition of event patterns and provides soft real-time guarantees for their recognition. The proposed approach extends the classical Rete algorithm and maps event matching onto a graph of actor nodes. Using a tiered event matching model, PARTE provides upper bounds on the detection latency by relying on a combination of non-blocking message passing between Rete nodes and safe memory management techniques. The performance evaluation shows the scalability of our approach on up to 64 cores. Moreover, it indicates that PARTE's design choices lead to more predictable performance compared to a PARTE variant without soft real-time guarantees. Finally, the evaluation indicates further that gesture recognition can benefit from the exposed parallelism with superlinear speedups.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.scico.2014.02.012
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Stefan Marr
Date Deposited: 08 Nov 2017 23:26 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 13:49 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/63833 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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