This project will focus on the setup of the basic hardware and on the development of the basic software necessary for a simple motion tracking experiment. Our experimental tracking system is based on a camera mounted on a Pan-Tilt unit (``head''), which provides positioning capabilities. The application example we are aiming at is the following: a person enters a room and moves within the camera field of view; the vision based control system has to track the person's movement.
We plan to start with the following simplified experiment: a white ball moves on a black background while a threshold algorithm provides ``position'' informations to a simplified feedback control law. Once this basic experiment is successfully implemented, more sophisticated tracking systems will become subjects of small additional projects.
We used to use TI C80 DSP chips for image capturing and algorithm implementation. For simplicity and better performance, from 1999 we are going to use fast Pentium machine with a framegrabber and wide-angle camera.
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