An autonomous surveillance vehicle for people tracking

  • Authors:
  • C. Piciarelli;C. Micheloni;G. L. Foresti

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Udine, Udine, Italy;Department of Computer Science, University of Udine, Udine, Italy;Department of Computer Science, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICIAP'05 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Image Analysis and Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, the problem of the surveillance and the security of indoor environments is addressed through the development of an autonomous surveillance vehicle (ASV). The ASV has been designed to perform the object detection by adopting an image alignment method followed by a change detection operation. Hence, in addition to the classical robotic tasks (e.g., navigation and obstacle avoiding), the tracking of objects (e.g., persons) moving in an indoor environment is considered. The tracking procedure allows the ASV to maintain the interesting objects in the centre of the image, and in specific cases to focus the image acquisition on particular parts of the object (e.g., face of a person, etc.) for recognition purposes. Experimental results have been performed on different real scenarios where no objects moves inside the monitored scene and where at least one moving object is into the scene.