Description

A Diploma/Master thesis is available within the CoTeSys excellence cluster: tracking people with a distributed, multi-camera system.

The work environment (see also the picture below) consists in a large multi-camera array (40 Ethernet cameras), shared among a distributed system of 15 PCs for people tracking from the top of a living room, which has been called the Coffee Break demonstration scenario (see also here).

In this scenario the first release of our OpenTL library will be used: this is a general-purpose object tracking library, fully developed at our Chair, that deals with possibly multiple objects, sensors and visual modalities.

Different tasks are involved in this work, which involves also the Chair for Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Informatik IX):

• Info IX: Setup of multi-camera and image acquisition (with GigE Ethernet cameras)
• Info IX: Calibrating the multi-camera system, using a laser pointing device
• Info VI: Writing the network communication layer for OpenTL (for distributed computing)
• Info VI: Tracking people with a multi-target particle filter using color histograms, using the tools implemented in OpenTL
• Info VI: Handle motion of people across cameras and PCs, using the network layer

The system setup is provided at the CCRL (CoTeSys Central Robotics Laboratory), near the old faculty campus in Arcistrasse.

For more information, please write to: panin@in.tum.de

Literature

Please refer to our Lectures on Model-based Visual Tracking.