• DocumentCode
    2488569
  • Title

    Follow-the-leader behaviour through optical flow minimization

  • Author

    Chivilo, G. ; Mezzaro, Flavio ; Sgorbissa, Antonio ; Zaccaria, Renato

  • Author_Institution
    DIST Laboratorium, Genova Univ., Italy
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    28 Sept.-2 Oct. 2004
  • Firstpage
    3182
  • Abstract
    In this paper we present a mobile system for visual tracking, i.e., a mobile platform equipped with a TV camera, which is capable of following a human leader along complex trajectories. Differently from existing systems, which mainly rely on the detection of colour blobs or particular features/markers, our system is based on the detection of motion through optical flow computation, thus being implicitly able to follow both persons and other robots with different characteristics in terms of colour, shape, etc.
  • Keywords
    image colour analysis; image sequences; minimisation; mobile robots; motion estimation; path planning; robot vision; service robots; follow the leader behaviour; mobile robot; mobile system; motion detection; optical flow computation; optical flow minimization; visual tracking; Computer vision; Human robot interaction; Image motion analysis; Intelligent robots; Mobile robots; Motion detection; Optical computing; Optical sensors; Robot vision systems; Shape;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004. (IROS 2004). Proceedings. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8463-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IROS.2004.1389907
  • Filename
    1389907