Title :
Child´s Body Part Tracking Simulates Babysitter Vision Robot
Author :
Aljuaid, Hanan ; Mohamad, Dzulkifli
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Taif Univ., Taif, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
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; image motion analysis; object tracking; robot vision; video signal processing; GMM algorithm; Gaussian mixture model algorithm; babysitter vision robot; body section labeling; body-part tracking; child body part tracking; child-object tracking; crawling object tracking; head section labeling; indoor background video; lower section labeling; outdoor background video; seated-moving-object tracking; system experimentation; upper section labeling; walking object tracking; whole-object tracking; Cameras; Head; Labeling; Legged locomotion; Object tracking; Pediatrics;
Conference_Titel :
IT Convergence and Security (ICITCS), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Macao
DOI :
10.1109/ICITCS.2013.6717812