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CDC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 6 months ago
An adaptive-covariance-rank algorithm for the unscented Kalman filter
Abstract-- The Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) is a nonlinear estimator that is particularly well suited for complex nonlinear systems. In the UKF, the error covariance is estimated ...
Lauren E. Padilla, Clarence W. Rowley
PAMI
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
Multicue HMM-UKF for Real-Time Contour Tracking
We propose an HMM model for contour detection based on multiple visual cues in spatial domain and improve it by joint probabilistic matching to reduce background clutter. It is fu...
Yunqiang Chen, Yong Rui, Thomas S. Huang
IJRR
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
Vibration Estimation of Flexible Space Structures using Range Imaging Sensors
Future space applications will require robotic systems to assemble, inspect, and maintain large space structures in orbit. For effective planning and control, robots will need to ...
Matthew D. Lichter, Hiroshi Ueno, Steven Dubowsky
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Vision and Laser Data Fusion for Tracking People with a Mobile Robot
— In this paper we present a multi-sensor fusion system for tracking people with a mobile robot, which integrates the information provided by a laser range sensor and a PTZ camer...
Nicola Bellotto, Huosheng Hu
ICAT
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The Design and Implementation of the Cicada Wireless Sensor Network Indoor Localization System
The wireless sensor network based localization system—Cicada is designed to support the locationawareness in indoor environment. The system is based on TDOA (time difference of ...
Wenfeng Jiang, Yu Chen, Yuanchun Shi, Yunfeng Sun
ICRA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Leader-Follower Formations: Uncalibrated Vision-Based Localization and Control
— This paper focuses on leader-follower formations of mobile robots equipped with panoramic cameras and extend earlier works in the literature addressing both the visionbased loc...
Gian Luca Mariottini, Fabio Morbidi, Domenico Prat...
ICVS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Multiple Hypothesis Approach for a Ball Tracking System
This paper presents a computer vision system for tracking and predicting flying balls in 3-D from a stereo-camera. It pursues a “textbook-style” approach with a robust circle ...
Oliver Birbach, Udo Frese
MICCAI
2009
Springer
15 years 22 days ago
Two-Tensor Tractography Using a Constrained Filter
We describe a technique to simultaneously estimate a weighted, positive-definite multi-tensor fiber model and perform tractography. Existing techniques estimate the local fiber ori...
James G. Malcolm, Martha Elizabeth Shenton, Yoge...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
15 years 23 days ago
SVD based Kalman particle filter for robust visual tracking
Object tracking is one of the most important tasks in computer vision. The unscented particle filter algorithm has been extensively used to tackle this problem and achieved a grea...
Qingdi Wei, Weiming Hu, Xi Li, Xiaoqin Zhang, Yang...
ICIP
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Optimal sensor selection for video-based target tracking in a wireless sensor network
The use of wireless sensor networks for target tracking is an active area of research. Imaging sensors that obtain video-rate images of a scene can have a significant impact in su...
Peshala V. Pahalawatta, Thrasyvoulos N. Pappas, Ag...