2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
People tracking and its applications by integrating multimodal observations
| Project/Area Number |
24700157
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
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| Research Institution | Saitama University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 人物行動計測 |
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| Research Abstract |
We developed a new people tracking system which consists of simple devices such as a laser range finder and omni-directional camera attached to a pole. By just placing the several sensor poles to the environment, we could track the location and orientation of multiple persons accurately and robustly. In our experiment our system successfully tracks people in a sensing area continuously even when they are occluded sometime. We apply this system to our museum guide robot and robotic wheelchair. Because our system can track not only the position of people but also the body orientation and the gaze direction in a large environment, our robots can provide appropriate services to users by considering the behaviors of the users in detail.
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