Segmenting humans from mobile thermal infrared imagery

Perceiving the environment is crucial in any application related to mobile robotics research. In this paper, a new approach to real-time human detection through processing video captured by a thermal infrared camera mounted on the indoor autonomous mobile platform mSecurit TM is introduced. The appr...

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Autores: López Bonal, María Teresa, Castillo Montoya, José Carlos, Fernández Caballero, Antonio, Serrano Cuerda, Juan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repositorio:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/2165
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10578/2165
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ingenierías
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Sumario:Perceiving the environment is crucial in any application related to mobile robotics research. In this paper, a new approach to real-time human detection through processing video captured by a thermal infrared camera mounted on the indoor autonomous mobile platform mSecurit TM is introduced. The approach starts with a phase of static analysis for the detection of human candidates through some classical image processing techniques such as image normalization and thresholding. Then, the proposal uses Lukas and Kanade optical flow without pyramids algorithm for filtering moving foreground objects from moving scene background. The results of both phases are compared to enhance the human segmentation by infrared camera. Indeed, optical flow will emphasize the foreground moving areas gotten at the initial human candidates detection.