Joint spatial registration and multi-target tracking using an extended PM-CPHD filter

An extended product multi-sensor cardinalized probability hypothesis density (PM-CPHD) filter for spatial registration and multi-target tracking (MTT) is proposed. The number and states of targets and the biases of sensors are jointly estimated by this method without the data association. Monte Carlo (MC) simulation results show that the proposed method (i) outperforms, although computationally more expensive than, the extended multi-sensor PHD filter which has been proposed for joint spatial registration and MTT; (ii) outperforms the multi-sensor joint probabilistic data association (MSJPDA) filter which is also extended in this study for joint spatial registration and MTT when the clutter is relatively dense.     

An iterative linear quadratic regulator based trajectory tracking controller for wheeled mobile robot

We present an iterative linear quadratic regulator(ILQR) method for trajectory tracking control of a wheeled mobile robot system.The proposed scheme involves a kinematic model linearization technique,a global trajectory generation algorithm,and trajectory tracking controller design.A lattice planner,which searches over a 3D(x,y,θ) configuration space,is adopted to generate the global trajectory.The ILQR method is used to design a local trajectory tracking controller.The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated in simulation and experiment with a significantly asymmetric differential drive robot.The performance of the local controller is analyzed and compared with that of the existing linear quadratic regulator(LQR) method.According to the experiments,the new controller improves the control sequences(v,ω) iteratively and produces slightly better results.Specifically,two trajectories,’S’ and ’8’ courses,are followed with sufficient accuracy using the proposed controller.     

基于小二乘-卡尔曼滤波的wMPS系统跟踪定位算法研究

wMPS(workspace Measuring Position System)是一种新型的基于平面交会原理的网络式测量系统,在静态测量研究的基础上,研究了动态跟踪测量的问题。为了减小运动引入的测量误差,利用运动方程提高测量精度,采用了最小二乘法对接收器的位置进行静态估算,将其结果作为伪观测值,然后利用卡尔曼滤波做进一步处理,该方法避免了观测方程中的非线性误差,实现了接收器在运动过程中的高精度跟踪定位。通过试验对最小二乘法和最小二乘-卡尔曼滤波法进行了比较,结果表明最小二乘-卡尔曼滤波法的估值精度远高于最小二乘法。     

运动目标检测与跟踪的DSP实现

研究了运动目标检测与跟踪的DSP（DigitalSignalProcessor）实现算法,以形心跟踪算法为整个处理系统的核心。采用目标形心跟踪算法,通过目标分割阶段的目标标记,如目标面积、周长、形心位置等信息的提取建立目标跟踪波门,实现目标的连续跟踪,并将此算法移植到sEED—VPM642硬件平台,实验结果表明能够达到预定目标。此外,为了克服形心算法的准确性和实时性缺陷,采用粒子滤波对算法进行必要的扩展,从MATLAB的仿真结果看,除个别采样点存在误差较大的情况,真实值曲线与粒子滤波跟踪曲线拟合较好。     

医用药剂中可见异物自动化检测研究

针对国内人工药品检测的低效率、低准确率的不足,文章介绍了一套根据国家行业标准设计的基于智能机器视觉的可见异物自动化检测系统。该系统主要包括机械传动模块、电气控制模块、图像识别与处理模块。根据异物运动连续性和噪声运动无序性等特点,提出了改进的三次差分和能量累积算法来提取运动杂质,然后采用基于基于SIFT特征匹配和最邻近匹配的目标跟踪算法对杂质进行跟踪,获取杂质的大小和数目并分析出杂质总类,最后检测出杂质情况。最后把检测结果与国家标准进行比对,判断出该药剂是否合格。测试表明,系统的检测准确率达90%以上,满足企业要求,基本能替代人工检测。     

Environmental Perception with Spatial Regularization Correlation Filter for Visual Tracking

With the introduction of correlation filtering (CF), the performance of visual object tracking is significantly improved. Circular shifts collecting samples is a key component of the CF tracker, and it also causes negative boundary effects. Most trackers add spatial regularization to alleviate boundary effects well. However, these trackers ignore the effect of environmental changes on tracking performance, and the filter discriminates poorly in the background interference. Here, to break these limitations, we propose a new correlation filter model, namely Environmental Perception with Spatial Regularization Correlation Filter for Visual Tracking. Specifically, we use the Average Peak to Correlation Energy (APCE) and the response value error between the two frames together to perceive environmental changes, which adjusts the learning rate to make the template more adaptable to environmental changes. To enhance the discriminatory capability of the filter, we use real background information as negative samples to train the filter model. In addition, the introduction of the regular term destroys the closed solution of CF, and this problem can be effectively solved by the use of the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Extensive experimental evaluations on three large tracking benchmarks are performed, which demonstrate the good performance of the proposed method over some of the state-of-the-art trackers.     

Selection of optimized features for fusion of palm print and finger knuckle‐based person authentication

The impact of digital technology in biometrics is much more efficient at interpreting data than humans, which results in completely replacement of manual identification procedures in forensic science. Because the single modality‐based biometric frameworks limit performance in terms of accuracy and anti‐spoofing capabilities due to the presence of low quality data, therefore, information fusion of more than one biometric characteristic in pursuit of high recognition results can be beneficial. In this article, we present a multimodal biometric system based on information fusion of palm print and finger knuckle traits, which are least associated to any criminal investigation as evidence yet. The proposed multimodal biometric system might be useful to identify the suspects in case of physical beating or kidnapping and establish supportive scientific evidences, when no fingerprint or face information is present in photographs. The first step in our work is data preprocessing, in which region of interest of palm and finger knuckle images have been extracted. To minimize nonuniform illumination effects, we first normalize the detected circular palm or finger knuckle and then apply line ordinal pattern (LOP)‐based encoding scheme for texture enrichment. The nondecimated quaternion wavelet provides denser feature representation at multiple scales and orientations when extracted over proposed LOP encoding and increases the discrimination power of line and ridge features. To best of our knowledge, this first attempt is a combination of backtracking search algorithm and 2D²LDA has been employed to select the dominant palm and knuckle features for classification. The classifiers output for two modalities are combined at unsupervised rank level fusion rule through Borda count method, which shows an increase in performance in terms of recognition and verification, that is, 100% (correct recognition rate), 0.26% (equal error rate), 3.52 (discriminative index), and 1,262 m (speed).     

基于上下文感知与自适应响应融合的相关滤波跟踪算法

针对当前相关滤波跟踪算法在抗背景干扰、响应融合方式以及模型更新策略上的不足,提出一种基于上下文感知与自适应响应融合的相关滤波跟踪算法.通过引入上下文感知技术,提高算法在背景杂波及遮挡等跟踪场景下的鲁棒性;通过研究HOG特征和颜色直方图特征二者响应图和响应值的特点,提出一种自适应响应融合方法,提升融合响应图的可靠性;在模型更新方面,采用了高置信度模型更新策略来减轻传统模型更新策略中模型污染及跟踪漂移的问题.实验结果表明,本文算法在OTB50数据集上达到了74.7%的跟踪精度,跟踪成功率为54.8%,均优于对比的主流相关滤波跟踪算法,并且在背景杂波、光照变化、遮挡、运动模糊等复杂跟踪场景中具有较好的跟踪精度与鲁棒性.     

基于Matlab实时运动目标跟踪检测系统

运动目标的检测跟踪是视频理解技术和计算机视觉的研究热点,其在解决智能视频监控,人机交互,智能交通系统等领域有着广泛而重要的应用,基于此利用matlab平台构建出USB摄像头实时图像采集处理系,从视频流采集到处理综合利用了背景估测,图像分割,目标检测与跟踪算法准确高效地检测出环境场景中的动态目标,并成功地对其进行实时追踪。利用matlab的simulink模块编程实现提取视频流YcbCr输入系统进行运算处理,并改进了背景估测和目标检测算法,提高系统的实时性。最终利用多次试验,对室内和室外运动目标实现检测跟踪,验证了系统处理实际问题的可靠性能。     

基于改进的MeanShift算法的选煤厂人员目标跟踪方法

针对采用传统的MeanShift算法进行智能视频监控易受背景干扰而丢失目标的问题,提出了一种将MeanShift算法与卡尔曼滤波算法相结合的选煤厂人员目标跟踪方法。该方法首先通过运动检测方法分割出跟踪目标区域,然后通过卡尔曼滤波算法预测下一帧跟踪窗口的起点,在此基础上采用MeanShift算法跟踪目标区域;由于选煤厂环境较复杂,为了防止跟踪失败,采用跟踪与检测相结合的方法来进一步保证跟踪的鲁棒性。实验结果表明,该方法能很好地消除背景中相似颜色区域的影响,具有较好的跟踪效果。