Tracking a Moving Object by an Active Vision System: PANTHER-VZ

This paper describes an active vision system and its application to object tracking. The system has two cameras with pan, tilt, and vergence (yaw rotation for each camera) mechanisms. Zoom, focus, and aperture of a lens are controllable for each camera. In the experiment, black hair of human was tracked by the system. Candidate regions for the target in the image are rst detected based on the similarity of the size and the shape. Three dimensional information is then used to select the target among the candidates. The system successfully tracked a person who walked around the room.

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