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This paper proposes a system for caring a physically impaired person by a mobile robot employing cooperative object recognition. It is a well-known fact that object recognition is not an easy task for a robot particularly in a real environment. It is, on the contrary, easy for a human. In the proposed system, a mobile robot goes to a spot where a user wishes to go in place of him/her and transfers...
This paper considers the multi-camera motion segmentation problem using unsynchronized videos: given two video clips containing several moving objects, captured by unregistered, unsynchronized cameras with different viewpoints, our goal is to assign features to moving objects in the scene. This problem challenges existing methods, due to the lack of registration information and correspondences across...
The unified program architecture of real time vision system (VS) with several fields of view construction is described. The offered architecture provides both onboard and stationary usage. In case of stationary usage, it provides determination of location and trajectory of objects movement in the ordered system of co-ordinates. Principles of open architecture, componential technology and use of standard...
In recent years, both the RFID and computer vision technologies have been widely employed in indoor scenarios aimed at different goals while faced with respective limitations. For example, the RFID-based EAS system is useful in quickly identifying tagged objects but the accompanying false alarm problem is troublesome and hard to tackle with except that the accurate trajectory of the target tag can...
This paper deals with a design of specific marker detector and tracker for semiautonomous convoy purpose. The solution is based on computer vision. The detectors main requirement is the specific marker recognition ability for various environments. The next part of this paper deals with tracking of marker by KLT algorithm. This solution was primary designed for a semi-autonomous convoy task, where...
the objective of this work is to compute the Time-to-Collision (TTC) of surrounding vehicles of a vehicle using motion information in driving video. The key advantage in this work is the extraction of potential danger without vehicle detection and recognition in prior, but directly from the motion divergence in the video. We analyze the trace expansion both horizontally and vertically condensed in...
Human action recognition is a way of retrieving videos emerged from Content Based Video Retrieval (CBVR).It is a growing area of research in the field of computer vision nowadays. Human action recognition has gained popularity because of its wide applicability in automatic retrieval of videos of particular action using visual features. The most common stages for action recognition includes: object...
Real-time outdoor navigation in highly dynamic environments is an crucial problem. The recent literature on real-time static SLAM don't scale up to dynamic outdoor environments. Most of these methods assume moving objects as outliers or discard the information provided by them. We propose an algorithm to jointly infer the camera trajectory and the moving object trajectory simultaneously. In this paper,...
In this paper, we present the first multi-body non-rigid structure-from-motion (SFM) method, which simultaneously reconstructs and segments multiple objects that are undergoing non-rigid deformation over time. Under our formulation, 3D trajectories for each non-rigid object can be well approximated with a sparse affine combination of other 3D trajectories from the same object. The resultant optimization...
In this paper the fusion of data from a network of security cameras and RSS fingerprint observations are combined to facilitate the simultaneous tracking of multiple persons inside indoor environments. An objective of the developed algorithm is to utilize existing building infrastructure namely the networks of security cameras and WiFi access points. Additionally minimal initial and maintenance calibration...
Segmentation of moving objects in a scene is difficult for non-stationary cameras, and especially challenging in the presence of fast and unstable egomotion, e.g., as encountered with car-mounted cameras or wearable devices. Based on an analysis of motion vanishing points of the scene and estimated depth, a geometric model that relates extracted 2D motion to a 3D motion field relative to the camera...
We propose a novel approach for the crowd anomaly detection in multiple cameras with non-overlapping and visible views. As we all know that there are some kinds of information hidden in the non-overlapping fields always. In this paper, we will mine time dependence data so that we can analyze the crowd anomaly detection from time dimension's angle. Firstly, we have to preprocess the real scene using...
The study of rodent animal's social behavior has a key role in the field of biology and medicine, and it's a challenge to track multiple animals individually in the group experiment. The trajectories swap is a common problem in multiple mice tracking, and it is difficult to be solved by single vision method. This paper discusses a hybrid tracking method using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)...
This paper describes the acquisition of a collection of representative image datasets for use in the development of autonomous planetary descent and landing navigation systems. These datasets were recently obtained using the VISILAB test-bench at ESA-ESTEC in The Netherlands, and represent realistic powered descent trajectories over a Lunar-type surface, but can also be relevant to a wide range of...
This paper describes a voice navigational system for the visually impaired which runs on the user's smart-phone as an application and requires no additional expensive or heavy hardware. This system requires just the live video stream from the user's phone camera and an internet connection, and hence can be used on the most basic of smart-phones. The system proposed here identifies obstacles in front...
This paper describes the use of two dimensional (2-D) laser scanner for locating badminton shuttlecock in real playing environment. It proposes a method to predict the end point of shuttlecock trajectory. The system is designed using two 2-D laser scanners to locate shuttlecock in midst of air in its trajectory. It helps to calculate shuttlecock's speed, orientation and hence, to predict an end point...
This paper examines the problem of motion segmentation by analyzing trajectories with statistical approach. We propose a statistical framework for motion segmentation, which makes no assumption on camera motion, camera model, number of moving objects and scene complexity. Long range trajectories are traced across frames and clustered by DTW metric. Various descriptors can be used to construct a weighted...
In this paper we implemented a system of fisheye vision (a 360° × 180° visual field) for georeferenced tracking of feature points associated with moving objects in urban scenes. To develop this system: 1. We calibrate the intrinsic parameters of a fisheye camera based on the stereographic model. 2. We propose a geometric model of image formation and adjust the position and orientation parameters using...
In this study, tennis ball rotation and trajectory are analyzed quantitatively. Fourteen dots are marked on a tennis ball to detect the ball rotation, and the markers' x−y positions are detected from high-speed camera images. First, the 3-D positions of the markers are calculated. Then, the rotation matrix is calculated by using the 3-D marker positions of successive camera frames. The rotation parameters,...
The octopus uses the arm-swimming behavior primarily for escape, defense, or foraging. This mode of locomotion is comprised of two strokes, with the arms opening slowly and closing rapidly, and generally results in considerable propulsive acceleration. In light of the recent development by our group of an octopus-like eight-arm underwater robot, we are interested to analyze the details of the biological...
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