Vision Based Person Tracking with a Mobile Robot

We address the problem of detecting and tracking people with a mobile robot. The need for following a person with a mobile robot arises in many different service robotic applications. The main problems of this task are realtimeconstraints, a changing background, varying illumination conditions and a non-rigid shape of the person to be tracked. The presented system has been tested extensively on a mobile robot in our everyday office environment.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: BMVC
• Authors: Christian Schlegel, Jörg Illmann, Heiko Jaberg, Matthias Schuster, Robert Wörz
• Keywords: BMVC 1998, Computer Vision, Mobile Robot, Mobile Robot Arises, Service Robotic Applications