Human tracking in crowded public places.

  • The paper [1] presents a novel method of Differential Images based Target Tracking.
  • Complete system of Human Detection, Target Person Selection, Target Tracking and Robot’s Steering towards the target person is presented.
  • Comparison of presented tracking method is done with conventional tracking methods.

Limitations of existing methods

Limitations of Cam Shift based tracking

  • Good for tracking of small objects.
  • False tracking in case target's histogram distribution is similar to any other object's distribution.
  • Average response time = 1.4 ms

Limitations of LK Optical Flow based tracking

  • False tracking under background movement.
  • Cannot detect large motion.
  • Tracking is based on the movement of featured points only.
  • Average response time = 0.8 ms

Limitations of Particle filter based tracking

  • Based on Gaussian sampling from images.
  • False tracking in case sample distribution matches the distribution of any other region.
  • Average response time = 24 ms


[1] Badar Ali, Ahmed Hussain Qureshi, Khawaja Fahad Iqbal, Yasar Ayaz, Syed Omer Gilani, Mohsin Jamil, Naveed Muhammad, Faizan Ahmed, Mannan Saeed Muhammad, Whoi-Yul Kim, Moonsoo Ra, "Human tracking by a mobile robot using 3D features", Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 2464-2469, Shenzhen, China, 2013.