computer vision feature tracker priorless tracking (2005)

[Mifiglio47]

Im new to computer vison. I was wondering if you knew of any introductory resources i might be able to get? Kalman filters, Dynamic servoing, that sort of thing. Did u use optimal control theory to start your project, or build off an existing example?

[hnraghava]

thanx for letting me know, one last thing, you wrote this in C or matlab?

[mundhenk666]

It's all in C++ (gcc). You can get the source code at ilab dot usc dot edu . My email is also listed there so you can email me directly if you want to do anything with it and need some assistance :)

[hnraghava]

and one more thing, how computationally intensive is the algorithm..it is running real time as we see it, but what is order of complexity say with number of objects or number of pixels, can it run on a 1Ghz processor with 1Gig of RAM?

[mundhenk666]

It's not to bad in terms of complexity. We did those two years ago and it ran at a few frames per second. We had to do it offline then since we wanted to see how it would work at > 15 fps. The general components are very fast. I haven't tested it lately, but I suspect it should run fast enough for real time on newer computers.

[hnraghava]

wow thats cool, which univ r u guys working in?

[mundhenk666]

This is a joint project between the University of Southern California and Aerospace Corporation.

[hnraghava]

cool, can u track multiple objects?

[mundhenk666]

Yah, we can find and track several objects at the same time even if the camera is moving.