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Real-Time Salient Closed Boundary Tracking via Line Segments Perceptual Grouping
This paper presents a novel real-time method for tracking salient closed
boundaries from video image sequences. This method operates on a set of
straight line segments that are produced by line detection. The tracking scheme
is coherently integrated into a perceptual grouping framework in which the
visual tracking problem is tackled by identifying a subset of these line
segments and connecting them sequentially to form a closed boundary with the
largest saliency and a certain similarity to the previous one. Specifically, we
define a new tracking criterion which combines a grouping cost and an area
similarity constraint. The proposed criterion makes the resulting boundary
tracking more robust to local minima. To achieve real-time tracking
performance, we use Delaunay Triangulation to build a graph model with the
detected line segments and then reduce the tracking problem to finding the
optimal cycle in this graph. This is solved by our newly proposed closed
boundary candidates searching algorithm called "Bidirectional Shortest Path
(BDSP)". The efficiency and robustness of the proposed method are tested on
real video sequences as well as during a robot arm pouring experiment.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figures, The 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017) submission ID 103
Shape and Trajectory Tracking of Moving Obstacles
This work presents new methods and algorithms for tracking the shape and
trajectory of moving reflecting obstacles with broken rays, or rays reflecting
at an obstacle. While in tomography the focus of the reconstruction method is
to recover the velocity structure of the domain, the shape and trajectory
reconstruction procedure directly finds the shape and trajectory of the
obstacle. The physical signal carrier for this innovative method are ultrasonic
beams. When the speed of sound is constant, the rays are straight line segments
and the shape and trajectory of moving objects will be reconstructed with
methods based on the travel time equation and ellipsoid geometry. For variable
speed of sound, we start with the eikonal equation and a system of differential
equations that has its origins in acoustics and seismology. In this case, the
rays are curves that are not necessarily straight line segments and we develop
algorithms for shape and trajectory tracking based on the numerical solution of
these equations. We present methods and algorithms for shape and trajectory
tracking of moving obstacles with reflected rays when the location of the
receiver of the reflected ray is not known in advance. The shape and trajectory
tracking method is very efficient because it is not necessary for the reflected
signal to traverse the whole domain or the same path back to the transmitter.
It could be received close to the point of reflection or far away from the
transmitter. This optimizes the energy spent by transmitters for tracking the
object, reduces signal attenuation and improves image resolution. It is a safe
and secure method. We also present algorithms for tracking the shape and
trajectory of absorbing obstacles. The new methods and algorithms for shape and
trajectory tracking enable new applications and an application to one-hop
Internet routing is presented.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figures, 2 table
CoMaL Tracking: Tracking Points at the Object Boundaries
Traditional point tracking algorithms such as the KLT use local 2D
information aggregation for feature detection and tracking, due to which their
performance degrades at the object boundaries that separate multiple objects.
Recently, CoMaL Features have been proposed that handle such a case. However,
they proposed a simple tracking framework where the points are re-detected in
each frame and matched. This is inefficient and may also lose many points that
are not re-detected in the next frame. We propose a novel tracking algorithm to
accurately and efficiently track CoMaL points. For this, the level line segment
associated with the CoMaL points is matched to MSER segments in the next frame
using shape-based matching and the matches are further filtered using
texture-based matching. Experiments show improvements over a simple
re-detect-and-match framework as well as KLT in terms of speed/accuracy on
different real-world applications, especially at the object boundaries.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, to appear in 1st Joint BMTT-PETS Workshop on
Tracking and Surveillance, CVPR 201
Real-time model-based slam using line segments
Abstract. Existing monocular vision-based SLAM systems favour interest point features as landmarks, but these are easily occluded and can only be reliably matched over a narrow range of viewpoints. Line segments offer an interesting alternative, as line matching is more stable with respect to viewpoint changes and lines are robust to partial occlusion. In this paper we present a model-based SLAM system that uses 3D line segments as landmarks. Unscented Kalman filters are used to initialise new line segments and generate a 3D wireframe model of the scene that can be tracked with a robust model-based tracking algorithm. Uncertainties in the camera position are fed into the initialisation of new model edges. Results show the system operating in real-time with resilience to partial occlusion. The maps of line segments generated during the SLAM process are physically meaningful and their structure is measured against the true 3D structure of the scene.
Geometric-based Line Segment Tracking for HDR Stereo Sequences
In this work, we propose a purely geometrical approach for the robust matching of line segments for challenging stereo streams with severe illumination changes or High Dynamic Range (HDR) environments. To that purpose, we exploit the univocal nature of the matching problem, i.e. every observation must be corresponded with a single feature or not corresponded at all. We state the problem as a sparse, convex, `1-minimization of the matching vector regularized by the geometric constraints. This formulation allows for the robust tracking of line segments along sequences where traditional appearance-based matching techniques tend to fail due to dynamic changes in illumination conditions. Moreover, the proposed matching algorithm also results in a considerable speed-up of previous state of the art techniques making it suitable for real-time applications such as Visual Odometry (VO). This, of course, comes at expense of a slightly lower number of matches in comparison with appearance based methods, and also limits its application to continuous video sequences, as it is rather constrained to small pose increments between consecutive frames.We validate the claimed advantages by first evaluating the matching performance in challenging video sequences, and then testing the method in a benchmarked point and line based VO algorithm.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.This work has been supported by the Spanish Government (project DPI2017-84827-R and grant BES-2015-071606) and by the Andalucian Government (project TEP2012-530)
Triggering with the ALICE TRD
We discuss how a level-1 trigger, about 8 us after a hadron-hadron collision,
can be derived from the Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) in A Large Ion
Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the LHC. Chamber-wise track segments from fast
on-detector reconstruction are read out with position, angle and electron
likelihood. In the Global Tracking Unit up to 6 tracklets from a particle
traversing the detector layers are matched and used for the reconstruction of
transverse momentum and electron identification. Such tracks form the basis for
versatile and flexible trigger conditions, e.g. single high-pt hadron, single
high-pt electron, di-electron (J/Psi, Upsilon) and at least n close high-pt
tracks (jet).
The need for low-latency on-line reconstruction poses challenges on the
detector operation. The calibration for gain (pad-by-pad) and drift velocity
must be applied already in the front-end electronics. Due to changes in
pressure and gas composition an on-line monitoring and feedback loop for these
parameters is required. First experiences on the performance were gathered from
triggering in cosmic and pp runs.Comment: 6 pages, 10 figure
High accuracy OMEGA timekeeping
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) operates a worldwide satellite tracking network which uses a combination of OMEGA as a frequency reference, dual timing channels, and portable clock comparisons to maintain accurate epoch time. Propagational charts from the U.S. Coast Guard OMEGA monitor program minimize diurnal and seasonal effects. Daily phase value publications of the U.S. Naval Observatory provide corrections to the field collected timing data to produce an averaged time line comprised of straight line segments called a time history file (station clock minus UTC). Depending upon clock location, reduced time data accuracies of between two and eight microseconds are typical
Head-raising of snake robots based on a predefined spiral curve method
© 2018 by the authors. A snake robot has to raise its head to acquire a wide visual space for planning complex tasks such as inspecting unknown environments, tracking a flying object and acting as a manipulator with its raising part. However, only a few researchers currently focus on analyzing the head-raising motion of snake robots. Thus, a predefined spiral curve method is proposed for the head-raising motion of such robots. First, the expression of the predefined spiral curve is designed. Second, with the curve and a line segments model of a snake robot, a shape-fitting algorithm is developed for constraining the robot's macro shape. Third, the coordinate system of the line segments model of the robot is established. Then, phase-shifting and angle-solving algorithms are developed to obtain the angle sequences of roll, pitch, and yaw during the head-raising motion. Finally, the head-raising motion is simulated using the angle sequences to validate the feasibility of this method
Solar energy collection system
A fixed, linear, ground-based primary reflector having an extended curved sawtooth-contoured surface covered with a metalized polymeric reflecting material, reflects solar energy to a movably supported collector that is kept at the concentrated line focus reflector primary. The primary reflector may be constructed by a process utilizing well known freeway paving machinery. The solar energy absorber is preferably a fluid transporting pipe. Efficient utilization leading to high temperatures from the reflected solar energy is obtained by cylindrical shaped secondary reflectors that direct off-angle energy to the absorber pipe. A seriatim arrangement of cylindrical secondary reflector stages and spot-forming reflector stages produces a high temperature solar energy collection system of greater efficiency
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