Person tracking method and apparatus using robot
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSangmin Yoon, Changkyu Choi, Hyoungki Lee
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Abstract
A person tracking method and apparatus using a robot. The person tracking method includes: detecting a person in a first window of a current input image using a skin color of the person; and setting a plurality of second windows in a next input image, correlating the first window and the second windows and tracking the detected person in the next input image using the correlated results.
Claims20
A person tracking method comprising:
- detecting a person in a first window of a current input image using a skin color of the person;
- and
- setting a plurality of second windows in a next input image, correlating the first window and the second windows and tracking the detected person in the next input image using the correlated results.
A computer-readable storage medium encoded with processing instructions for causing a processor to perform a person tracking method, the method comprising:
- detecting a person in a first window of a current input image using a skin color of the person;
- and
- setting a plurality of second windows in a next input image, correlating the first window and the second windows and tracking the detected person in the next input image using the correlated results.
A person tracking apparatus comprising:
- an image input unit which outputs continuous images;
- a person detecting unit which detects a person from a current input image in a first window using a skin color of the person;
- and
- a tracking unit which sets a plurality of second windows in a next input image following the current input image, correlates the first window and the second windows and tracks the detected person in the next input image using the correlated results.
A robot, comprising:
- an image input unit receiving an image and outputting a captured image;
- a person detecting unit detecting a person in the captured image using a skin color of the person;
- a tracking object determining unit selecting a detected person in the captured image as a tracking object;
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- a tracking unit moving the robot a location near the observation object and tracking the observation object at the location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.