Target tracking and localization of binocular mobile robot using camshift and SIFT

摘要

A real time dynamic target recognition and tracking method is presented for mobile robot in this paper. Firstly, the inter-frame difference method is applied to detect the moving target. And the proposed method computes the color histogram and extracts SIFT features in the target region. Then from the following frame, it extracts SIFT features, matches with SIFT features extracted from target, and calculates the center location of the matched features. Finally the Camshift algorithm, starting from the center location, is used to track the target. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively recognize and track the moving target, and its performance is better than the classic Camshift algorithm