• DocumentCode
    1931819
  • Title

    Object tracking simulates babysitter vision robot using GMM

  • Author

    Aljuaid, Hanan ; Mohamad, Dzulkifli

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Taif Univ., Taif, Saudi Arabia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    15-18 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    60
  • Lastpage
    65
  • Abstract
    Numerous image-processing technologies are essential in order to recognize an object. Object detection depends on the time-sequence of the video frames. Furthermore, manifold object tracking should be done in the line of the computer´s vision. To simulate a babysitter´s vision, our application was developed to track objects in a scene with the main goal of creating a reliable and operative moving child-object detection system. The aim of this paper is to explore novel algorithms to track a child-object in an indoor and outdoor background video. It focuses on tracking a whole child-object while simultaneously tracking the body parts of that object to produce a positive system. This effort suggests an approach for labeling three body sections, i.e., the head, upper, and lower sections, and then for detecting a specific area within the three sections, and tracking this section using a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) algorithm according to the labeling technique. The system is applied in three situations: child-object walking, crawling, and seated moving. During system experimentation, walking object tracking provided the best performance, achieving 91.932% for body-part tracking and 96.235% for whole-object tracking. Crawling object tracking achieved 90.832% for body-part tracking and 96.231% for whole-object tracking. Finally, seated-moving-object tracking achieved 89.7% for body-part tracking and 93.4% for whole-object tracking.
  • Keywords
    Gaussian processes; humanoid robots; image motion analysis; mixture models; object detection; object tracking; robot vision; video signal processing; GMM; Gaussian mixture model; babysitter vision robot; body-part tracking; child-object walking; computer vision; crawling object tracking; image-processing technology; labeling technique; moving child-object detection system; seated moving; time-sequence; video frame; whole-object trackin; Head; Labeling; Legged locomotion; Object tracking; Pediatrics; GMM; Object tracking; babysitter robot vision; body-part tracking; computer vision; robot vision;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR), 2013 International Conference of
  • Conference_Location
    Hanoi
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-3399-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SOCPAR.2013.7054101
  • Filename
    7054101