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A guiding robot aims to effectively bring people to and from specific places within environments that are possibly unknown to them. During this operation the robot should be able to detect and track the accompanied person, trying never to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Alberto Bacchin , Filippo Berno , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Understanding human-object interactions is fundamental in First Person Vision (FPV). Tracking algorithms which follow the objects manipulated by the camera wearer can provide useful cues to effectively model such interactions. Despite a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Matteo Dunnhofer , Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Christian Micheloni

Robot person following (RPF) -- mobile robots that follow and assist a specific person -- has emerging applications in personal assistance, security patrols, eldercare, and logistics. To be effective, such robots must follow the target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hanjing Ye , Weixi Situ , Jianwei Peng , Yu Zhan , Bingyi Xia , Kuanqi Cai , Hong Zhang

Despite the success of many advanced tracking methods in this area, tracking targets with drastic variation of appearance such as deformation, view change and partial occlusion in video sequences is still a challenge in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Suofei Zhang , Zhixin Sun , Xu Cheng , Zhenyang Wu

Human-robot collaboration requires the establishment of methods to guarantee the safety of participating operators. A necessary part of this process is ensuring reliable human pose estimation. Established vision-based modalities encounter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Michael Zechmair , Yannick Morel

This paper looks into the problem of pedestrian tracking using a monocular, potentially moving, uncalibrated camera. The pedestrians are located in each frame using a standard human detector, which are then tracked in subsequent frames.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Sourav Garg , Swagat Kumar , Rajesh Ratnakaram , Prithwijit Guha

GRAP-MOT is a new approach for solving the person MOT problem dedicated to videos of closed areas with overlapping multi-camera views, where person occlusion frequently occurs. Our novel graph-weighted solution updates a person's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Marek Socha , Michał Marczyk , Aleksander Kempski , Michał Cogiel , Paweł Foszner , Radosław Zawiski , Michał Staniszewski

Front-following is more technically difficult to implement than the other two human following technologies, but front-following technology is more practical and can be applied in more areas to solve more practical problems. Front-following…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jinwei Lin

This paper addresses a novel architecture for person-following robots using active search. The proposed system can be applied in real-time to general mobile robots for learning features of a human, detecting and tracking, and finally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Minkyu Kim , Miguel Arduengo , Nick Walker , Yuqian Jiang , Justin W. Hart , Peter Stone , Luis Sentis

Acquiring the accurate 3-D position of a target person around a robot provides fundamental and valuable information that is applicable to a wide range of robotic tasks, including home service, navigation and entertainment. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Mengmeng Wang , Daobilige Su , Lei Shi , Yong Liu , Jaime Valls Miro

Occlusion poses a great threat to monocular multi-person 3D human pose estimation due to large variability in terms of the shape, appearance, and position of occluders. While existing methods try to handle occlusion with pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qihao Liu , Yi Zhang , Song Bai , Alan Yuille

Capturing the interactions between humans and their environment in 3D is important for many applications in robotics, graphics, and vision. Recent works to reconstruct the 3D human and object from a single RGB image do not have consistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xianghui Xie , Bharat Lal Bhatnagar , Gerard Pons-Moll

Multi-view approaches to people-tracking have the potential to better handle occlusions than single-view ones in crowded scenes. They often rely on the tracking-by-detection paradigm, which involves detecting people first and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Martin Engilberge , Weizhe Liu , Pascal Fua

Reasoning about potential occlusions is essential for robots to efficiently predict whether an object exists in an environment. Though existing work shows that a robot with active perception can achieve various tasks, it is still unclear if…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Mengdi Li , Cornelius Weber , Matthias Kerzel , Jae Hee Lee , Zheni Zeng , Zhiyuan Liu , Stefan Wermter

Robustly tracking a person of interest in the crowd with a robotic platform is one of the cornerstones of human-robot interaction. The robot platform which is limited by the computational power, rapid movements, and occlusions of the target…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Adarsh Ghimire , Xiaoxiong Zhang , Naoufel Werghi , Sajid Javed , Jorge Dias

Occluded person re-identification (Re-ID) in images captured by multiple cameras is challenging because the target person is occluded by pedestrians or objects, especially in crowded scenes. In addition to the processes performed during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Minjung Kim , MyeongAh Cho , Heansung Lee , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

Although short-term fully occlusion happens rare in visual object tracking, most trackers will fail under these circumstances. However, humans can still catch up the target by anticipating the trajectory of the target even the target is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Fangyi Zhang

Tracking a target person from robot-egocentric views is crucial for developing autonomous robots that provide continuous personalized assistance or collaboration in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Embodied AI. However, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Hanjing Ye , Yu Zhan , Weixi Situ , Guangcheng Chen , Jingwen Yu , Ziqi Zhao , Kuanqi Cai , Arash Ajoudani , Hong Zhang

Understanding human-object interactions is fundamental in First Person Vision (FPV). Tracking algorithms which follow the objects manipulated by the camera wearer can provide useful cues to effectively model such interactions. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Matteo Dunnhofer , Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Christian Micheloni

The understanding of human-object interactions is fundamental in First Person Vision (FPV). Visual tracking algorithms which follow the objects manipulated by the camera wearer can provide useful information to effectively model such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Matteo Dunnhofer , Antonino Furnari , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Christian Micheloni