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IROS
2006
IEEE
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Scanning the Environment with Two Independent Cameras - Biologically Motivated Approach
— In this paper we present a novel method for visual scanning and target tracking by means of independent pan-tilt cameras which mimic the chameleon visual system. We present a s...
Ofir Avni, Francesco Borrelli, Gadi Katzir, Ehud R...
WAIM
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
An Adaptive Dynamic Cluster-Based Protocol for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
The rapid progress of wireless communication and embedded micro sensing technologies has made wireless sensor networks possible. Target tracking is an important application of wire...
WenCheng Yang, Zhen Fu, Jung-Hwan Kim, Myong-Soon ...
IROS
2007
IEEE
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A graph theoretic approach to optimal target tracking for mobile robot teams
Abstract— In this paper, we present an optimization framework for target tracking with mobile robot teams. The target tracking problem is modeled as a generic semidefinite progr...
Jason C. Derenick, John R. Spletzer, M. Ani Hsieh
ICC
2007
IEEE
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Secure Tracking in Sensor Networks
Abstract— Target tracking is a canonical issue in sensor networks research. However, tracking security has gained little or no attention. Once a sensor node is compromised, it wi...
Chih-Chieh Geoff Chang, Wesley E. Snyder, Cliff Wa...
CVPR
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Target Tracking with Online Feature Selection in FLIR Imagery
We present a particle filter-based target tracking algorithm for FLIR imagery. A dual foreground and background model is proposed for target representation which supports robust ...
Vijay Venkataraman, Guoliang Fan, Xin Fan
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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A point-based POMDP planner for target tracking
— Target tracking has two variants that are often studied independently with different approaches: target searching requires a robot to find a target initially not visible, and ...
David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Nan Rong
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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Target assignment for integrated search and tracking by active robot networks
Abstract—This paper presents a new task assignment algorithm that integrates area search and target tracking. A new tracking metric is derived that encodes the ability of each ro...
Eric W. Frew, Jack Elston
ICPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multivariate Laplace Filter: A heavy-tailed model for target tracking
Video-based target tracking is a challenging task, because there always appears to be complex occlusion among the varying number of objects. Also, in practice, it is very common t...
Daojing Wang, Chao Zhang, Xuemin Zhao
ICCCN
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Multi-Modal Target Tracking Using Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Abstract— The paper describes a target tracking system running on a Heterogeneous Sensor Network (HSN) and presents results gathered from a realistic deployment. The system fuses...
Manish Kushwaha, Isaac Amundson, Péter V&ou...
AIPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Intelligent multimodal and hyperspectral sensing for real-time moving target tracking
—Real time moving target tracking and identification with hyperspectral imagery is still very challenging with conventional sensors and algorithms. The increased information cont...
Tao Wang, Zhigang Zhu