• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.694-699
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• 2009

This paper presents the implementation of the real-time object tracking control of the ROBOKER head. The visual servoing technique is used to track the moving object, but suffers from ill-estimated Jacobian of the virtual link design. To improve the tracking performance, the RBF(Radial Basis Function) network is used to compensate for uncertainties in the kinematics of the robot head in on-line fashion. The reference compensation technique is employed as a neural network control scheme. Performances of three schemes, the kinematic based scheme, the Jacobian based scheme, and the neural network compensation scheme are verified by experimental studies. The neural compensation scheme performs best.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.212-220
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• 2007

This paper proposes a method of avoiding obstacles and tracking a moving object continuously and simultaneously by using new concepts of virtual tow point and fuzzy danger factor for differential wheeled mobile robots. Since differential wheeled mobile robot has smaller degree of freedom to control and are non-holonomic systems, there exist multiple solutions (trajectories) to control and reach a target position. The paper proposes 'fuzzy danger factor' for obstacles avoidance, 'virtual tow point' to solve non-holonomic object tracking control problem for unique solution and three kinds of fuzzy logic controller. The fuzzy logic controller is policy decision controller with fuzzy danger factor to decide which controller's result is more valuable when the mobile robot is tracking a moving object with obstacles to be avoided.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.39-50
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• 2017

Moving object tracking techniques can be considered as one of the most essential technique in the video understanding of which the importance is much more emphasized recently. However, irregularity of light condition in the video, variations in shape and size of object, camera motion, and occlusion make it difficult to tracking moving object in the video. Swarm based methods are developed to improve the performance of Kalman filter and particle filter which are known as the most representative conventional methods, but these methods also need to consider dynamic property of moving object. This paper proposes adaptive parameter control method which can dynamically change weight value among parameters in particle swarm optimization. The proposed method classifies each particle to 3 groups, and assigns different weight values to improve object tracking performance. Experimental results show that our scheme shows considerable improvement of performance in tracking objects which have nonlinear movements such as occlusion or unexpected movement.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.10C
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• pp.1013-1022
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• 2003

This paper implemented the real-time object tracking algorithm that extracts and tracks the moving object adaptively to input frame sequence by using non-parametric image processing method and Kalman filter-based dynamic AR(2) process method. By applying non-parametric image processing to input frames, the moving object was extracted from the background adaptively to diverse environmental conditions. And the movement of object was able to be adaptively estimated and tracked by modeling the various movement of object as dynamic AR(2) process and estimating based on the Kalman filter the parameters of AR(2) process dynamically changing along time. The experiments of the implemented object tracking system showed that the proposed method tracked the moving object as more approximately as the estimation error became about l/2.5∼1/50 of one of the traditional tracking method based on linear Kalman filter.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.798-802
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• 2003

The robustness and reliability of vision algorithms is the key issue in robotic research and industrial applications. In this paper, the robust real time visual tracking in complex scene is considered. A common approach to increase robustness of a tracking system is to use different models (CAD model etc.) known a priori. Also fusion of multiple features facilitates robust detection and tracking of objects in scenes of realistic complexity. Because voting is a very simple or no model is needed for fusion, voting-based fusion of cues is applied. The approach for this algorithm is tested in a 3D Cartesian robot which tracks a toy vehicle moving along 3D rail, and the Kalman filter is used to estimate the motion parameters, namely the system state vector of moving object with unknown dynamics. Experimental results show that fusion of cues and motion estimation in a tracking system has a robust performance.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.11-18
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• 2007

A moving object detection algorithm for surveillance video is here proposed which employs background initialization based on two-stage median filtering and a background updating method based on state transition diagram. In the background initialization, the spatiotemporal similarity is measured in the subinterval. From the accumulated difference between the base frame and the other frames in a subinterval, the regions affected by moving objects are located. The median is applied over the subsequence in the subinterval in which regions share similarity. The outputs from each subinterval are filtered by a two-stage median filter. The background of every frame is updated by the suggested state transition diagram The object is detected by the difference between the current frame and the updated background. The proposed method showed good results even for busy, crowded sequences which included moving objects from the first frame.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.153-156
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• 2003

This paper proposes a video tracking method for a deformable moving object using an active contour model. In order to decide the convergent directions of the contour points automatically, a new energy function based on a frame difference map and an updating rules of the frame difference map are presented. Experimental results on a set of synthetic and real image sequences showed that the proposed method can fully track a speedy deformable object while extracting the boundary of the object exactly in every frame.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.68-75
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• 2017

This study deals with a color-based tracking method of a moving object effectively in case that the color of the moving object is same as or similar to that of background. The CamShift algorithm, which is the representative color-based tracking method, shows unstable tracking when the color of moving objects exists in the background. In order to overcome the drawback, this paper proposes the CamShift algorithm merged with depth information of the object. Depth information can be obtained from Kinect device which measures the distance information of all pixels in an image. Experimental result shows that the proposed tracking method, the Camshift merged with depth information of the tracking object, makes up for the unstable tracking of the existing CamShift algorithm and also shows improved tracking performance in comparison with only CamShift algorithm.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.427-435
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• 2002

This paper presents a development result for image processed tracking system of multiple moving objects based on Kalman filter and a simple window tracking method. The proposed algorithm of foreground detection and background adaptation (FDBA) is composed of three modules: a block checking module(BCM), an object movement prediction module(OMPM), and an adaptive background estimation module (ABEM). The BCM is processed for checking the existence of objects. To speed up the image processing time and to precisely track multiple objects under the object's mergence, a concept of a simple window tracking method is adopted in the OMPM. The ABEM separates the foreground from the background in the reset simple tracking window in the OMPM. It is shown through experimental results that the proposed FDBA algorithm is robustly adaptable to the background variation in a short processing time. Furthermore, it is shown that the proposed method can solve the problems of mergence, cross and split that are brought up in the case of tracking multiple moving objects.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.78-87
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• 2016

The major problems of recent object tracking methods are related to the inefficient detection of moving objects due to occlusions, noisy background and inconsistent body motion. This paper presents a robust method for the detection and tracking of a moving in infrared animal videos. The tracking system is based on adaptive optical flow generation, Gaussian mixture and Kalman filtering. The adaptive Gaussian model of optical flow (GMOF) is used to extract foreground and noises are removed based on the object motion. Kalman filter enables the prediction of the object position in the presence of partial occlusions, and changes the size of the animal detected automatically along the image sequence. The presented method is evaluated in various environments of unstable background because of winds, and illuminations changes. The results show that our approach is more robust to background noises and performs better than previous methods.