Acquiring the accurate three-dimensional (3-D) position of a target person around a robot
provides valuable information that is applicable to a wide range of robotic tasks, especially …

Acquiring the accurate 3-D position of a target person around a robot provides fundamental
and valuable information that is applicable to a wide range of robotic tasks, including home …

People tracking based on multisensor information fusion is addressed. A framework is
presented for fusing the laser range finder (LRF) data and the monocular camera data …

Optical tracking technique based on multiple cameras is widely employed in robots, virtual
reality, and industrial measurements due to its excellent position accuracy. However, its 6-D …

In robotics and augmented reality applications, model-based 3-D tracking of rigid objects is
generally required. With the help of accurate pose estimates, it is required to increase …

Inspite extensive research on visual tracking of multiple people in computer vision area, the
robustness and usability of visual trackers are still discouraging. Recently, a few laser-based …

The Kalman filter (KF) has been improved for a mobile robot to human tracking. The
proposed algorithm combines a curve matching framework and KF to enhance prediction …

Tracking and grasping moving objects are hot topics in the field of robots, which provides
great potential in the industrial scene and human–computer cooperation. Based on the …

Current demographics show that Japan is experiencing a combination of an aging
population and a declining birth rate. Therefore, interest is growing in the potential of human …

Human tracking is a fundamental research issue for mobile robot, since coexistence of
human and robots is expected in the near future. In this paper, we present a new method for …