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Robust leader tracking from an unmanned ground vehicleFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
While many leader-follower technologies for robotic mules have been developed in recent years, the problem of reliably
tracking and re-acquiring a human leader through cluttered environments continues to pose a challenge to widespread
acceptance of these systems. Recent approaches to leader tracking rely on leader-worn equipment that may be damaged,
hidden from view, or lost, such as radio transmitters or special clothing, as well as specialized sensing hardware such as
high-resolution LIDAR. We present a vision-based approach for robustly tracking a leader using a simple monocular
camera. The proposed method requires no modification to the leader’s equipment, nor any specialized sensors on board
the host platform. The system learns a discriminative model of the leader’s appearance to robustly track him or her
through long occlusions, changing lighting conditions, and cluttered environments. We demonstrate the system’s
tracking capabilities on publicly available benchmark datasets, as well as in representative scenarios captured using a
small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV).
Paper Details
Date Published: 17 May 2013
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8741, Unmanned Systems Technology XV, 87410D (17 May 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2016013
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8741:
Unmanned Systems Technology XV
Robert E. Karlsen; Douglas W. Gage; Charles M. Shoemaker; Grant R. Gerhart, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8741, Unmanned Systems Technology XV, 87410D (17 May 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2016013
Show Author Affiliations
Camille S. Monnier, Charles River Analytics, Inc. (United States)
Stan German, Charles River Analytics, Inc. (United States)
Stan German, Charles River Analytics, Inc. (United States)
Andrey Ostapchenko, Charles River Analytics, Inc. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8741:
Unmanned Systems Technology XV
Robert E. Karlsen; Douglas W. Gage; Charles M. Shoemaker; Grant R. Gerhart, Editor(s)
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