• DocumentCode
    3506825
  • Title

    A human tracking mobile-robot with face detection

  • Author

    Suzuki, Satoru ; Mitsukura, Yasue ; Takimoto, Hironori ; Tanabata, Takanari ; Kimura, Nobutaka ; Moriya, Toshio

  • Author_Institution
    Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Koganei, Japan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    3-5 Nov. 2009
  • Firstpage
    4217
  • Lastpage
    4222
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we propose the face detection method for tracking a human by a mobile-robot. We obtain images from a web camera, and detect faces by focusing on skin colors and eyes as facial features. If we detect faces from images, we trace the detected human, take a picture of him/her, and print it automatically by using the mobile-robot. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed method, we show the experimental results. Firstly, in the face detection, we show the face detection accuracy. Then, in the human tracking with mobile-robot by using face detection, we show the tracking performance.
  • Keywords
    face recognition; mobile robots; path planning; robot vision; eye feature; face detection method; human tracking mobile robot; skin color feature; Agriculture; Brightness; Cameras; Eyes; Face detection; Facial features; Humans; Robotics and automation; Service robots; Skin;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics, 2009. IECON '09. 35th Annual Conference of IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Porto
  • ISSN
    1553-572X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4648-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1553-572X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IECON.2009.5415074
  • Filename
    5415074