Device for and method of automatically tracking a moving object
First Claim
1. An automatic moving object tracking device, comprising:
- a photographing unit photographing a monitoring area;
a binary disturbance image generating unit generating a binary disturbance image signal from an input image signal of each frame acquired through the photographing unit;
a moving object acquiring unit acquiring from the binary disturbance image signal information about a moving object by using a moving window as an initial tracking window having a predetermined size, and adjusting the initial tracking window in size so that the binary disturbance image signal contains the moving object therein;
a moving object automatic tracking unit estimating information about a location in a following frame to which a center of the moving object is to be moved based on currently acquired information and previously acquired information about the center of the moving object, moving a center of the moving window to the estimated location where the center of the moving object is estimated to be moved to, and acquiring actual information about an actual center of the moving object in the moving window and the size of the tracking window; and
a tracking status determining unit comparing the actual information about the moving object with the estimated information about the moving object, and determining a tracking status of the moving object based on a resultant error range of the actual information and the estimated information, the actual information about the moving object being acquired through the following frame.
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Abstract
An automatic moving object tracking device and a method thereof are capable of tracking a moving object through a signal process of an input image signal of each frame. The moving object tracking device converts a pre-processed input image signal into a binary disturbance image signal, and calculates a motion value of each pixel through an initial tracking window. After locating the tracking window at the pixel where the motion value is a maximum value, a size of the tracking window is adjusted so that the tracking window can include the moving object therein. Next, based on acquired information about the moving object and the tracking window and previously acquired information about previously frames, a pixel in a following frame is estimated to be a next location of the moving object. The tracking window is positioned at the estimated pixel. If the tracking result is satisfied, the tracking of the moving object continues.
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32 Claims
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1. An automatic moving object tracking device, comprising:
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a photographing unit photographing a monitoring area; a binary disturbance image generating unit generating a binary disturbance image signal from an input image signal of each frame acquired through the photographing unit; a moving object acquiring unit acquiring from the binary disturbance image signal information about a moving object by using a moving window as an initial tracking window having a predetermined size, and adjusting the initial tracking window in size so that the binary disturbance image signal contains the moving object therein; a moving object automatic tracking unit estimating information about a location in a following frame to which a center of the moving object is to be moved based on currently acquired information and previously acquired information about the center of the moving object, moving a center of the moving window to the estimated location where the center of the moving object is estimated to be moved to, and acquiring actual information about an actual center of the moving object in the moving window and the size of the tracking window; and a tracking status determining unit comparing the actual information about the moving object with the estimated information about the moving object, and determining a tracking status of the moving object based on a resultant error range of the actual information and the estimated information, the actual information about the moving object being acquired through the following frame. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An automatic moving object tracking method, comprising:
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photographing a monitoring area using a photographing unit; generating a binary disturbance image signal from an input image signal acquired through the photographing unit; acquiring from the binary disturbance image signal information about the moving object by using a moving window as an initial tracking window having a predetermined size; adjusting a size of the initial tracking window so that the binary disturbance image signal contains the moving object; estimating information about a location of the moving object in a following frame to which a center of the moving object is to be moved based on currently acquired information and previously acquired information about a center of the moving object; moving a center of the moving window to the estimated location where the center of the moving object is estimated to be moved to; acquiring actual information about an actual center of the moving object in the moving window and the size of the moving window; and comparing the actual information about the moving object with the estimated information about the moving object, and determining tracking status of the moving object based on a resultant error range of the estimated and actual information, the actual information about the moving object being acquired through the following frame. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. An automatic moving object tracking device, comprising:
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a photographing unit photographing a monitoring area to generate an input image signal of each frame; a binary disturbance image generating unit generating a binary disturbance image signal from input image signals of current and previous frames; a moving object acquiring unit generating a moving window, acquiring information about a moving object from the binary disturbance image by using the moving window, and adjusting a size of the moving window in response to the information; a moving object automatic tracking unit estimating a location of the moving object in a following frame based on the centers of the moving object in the current and previous frame and acquiring an actual center of the moving object in the moving window in the following frame; a tracking status determining unit generating tracking status upon comparing the actual center of the moving object with the estimated center of the moving object; and a photographing control unit controlling the photographing unit in response to the tracking status. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. An automatic moving object tracking method, comprising:
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photographing a monitoring area to generate an input image signal of each frame using a photographing unit; generating a binary disturbance image signal from input image signals of current and previous frames; generating a moving window, acquiring information about a moving object from the binary disturbance image by using the moving window, and adjusting a size of the initial tracking window in response to the information; estimating a location of the moving object in a following frame based on the centers of the moving object in the current and previous frame; acquiring an actual center of the moving object in the tracking window in the following frame; generating tracking status upon comparing the actual center of the moving object with the estimated center of the moving object; and controlling the photographing unit in response to the tracking status.
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