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From: argosy!fier@decwrl.dec.com (Jeff Fier)
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Subject: Parallel Tracking Algorithms
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Date: 14 Dec 90 13:01:40 GMT
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Chris:

I received a copy of the request you posted to the net about parallel tracking
algorithms. I recently implemented a PDA algorithm due to S.B. Colegrove, et
al. [1] on the MasPar MP-1 (SIMD, 1K--16K processors). This work was carried
out with Heiko Schroeder, Rob Evans, and Bryan Beresford-Smith of Newcastle
University in Newcastle, NSW, Australia.  We have not yet written a paper
describing the work, but intend to do so shortly.

I would be happy to send a preliminary copy of the paper once I get something
coherent written. If you'd like to know some details about the implementation
right away, please feel free to call me @ (408) 736-3300 and I'll fill you in
on what we did; it's kind of difficult to describe things in an e-mail
message. I'd also like to hear what sort of things you have been looking at
since this is an interesting problem area.

--Jeff Fier
fier@maspar.com

[1] S.B. Colegrove and J.K. Ayliffe, "Track Initiation and Nearest Neighbours
    Incorporated into Probabilistic Data Association," IEEE Australia, Vol. 6,
    No. 3, September 1986, pp. 191--198.