VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date: Monday, 02/04/2002
Time: 3:30-4:40
Place: NSH 1507

Title: Active Tracking of Active People

Speaker: Robert Collins

Abstract:

I will present current work on a project called Next Generation
Internet (NGI), which combines elements of both VSAM and EyeVision.
The goal is acquire multiple views of a person who is energetically
moving through the environment.  This is achieved through real-time
person tracking using multiple sensors with active pan/tilt and
zoom/focus control.  Tracking a non-rigid moving person from a moving
sensor is achieved using the mean-shift algorithm for tracking the
mode of a distribution.  We currently use the normalized color distribution
of the person blob, but we will talk a little about how other segmentation
cues such as motion, texture, predicted location, and shape could also be
integrated into this framework.