We propose a probabilistic filtering method which fuses joint measurements with depth images to yield a precise, real-time estimate of the end-effector pose in the camera frame. This avoids the need for frame transformations when using it in combination with visual object tracking methods. Precision is achieved by modeling and correcting biases in the joint measurements as well as inaccuracies in the robot model, such as poor extrinsic camera calibration. We make our method computationally efficient through a principled combination of Kalman filtering of the joint measurements and asynchronous depth-image updates based on the Coordinate Particle Filter. We quantitatively evaluate our approach on a dataset recorded from a real robotic platform, annotated with ground truth from a motion capture system. We show that our approach is robust and accurate even under challenging conditions such as fast motion, significant and long-term occlusions, and time-varying biases. We release the dataset along with open-source code of our approach to allow for quantitative comparison with alternative approaches.
The method we propose extends our previous work on visual tracking based on a model of raw depth images @cite_12 @cite_11 . These measurements are highly nonlinear and non-Gaussian, for which particle filters are well suited.
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In this paper we propose a robust visual tracking method by casting tracking as a sparse approximation problem in a particle filter framework. In this framework, occlusion, corruption and other challenging issues are addressed seamlessly through a set of trivial templates. Specifically, to find the tracking target at a new frame, each target candidate is sparsely represented in the space spanned by target templates and trivial templates. The sparsity is achieved by solving an l 1 -regularized least squares problem. Then the candidate with the smallest projection error is taken as the tracking target. After that, tracking is continued using a Bayesian state inference framework in which a particle filter is used for propagating sample distributions over time. Two additional components further improve the robustness of our approach: 1) the nonnegativity constraints that help filter out clutter that is similar to tracked targets in reversed intensity patterns, and 2) a dynamic template update scheme that keeps track of the most representative templates throughout the tracking procedure. We test the proposed approach on five challenging sequences involving heavy occlusions, drastic illumination changes, and large pose variations. The proposed approach shows excellent performance in comparison with three previously proposed trackers. In this paper we propose a robust visual tracking method by casting tracking as a sparse approximation problem in a particle filter framework. In this framework, occlusion, corruption and other challenging issues are addressed seamlessly through a set of trivial templates. Specifically, to find the tracking target at a new frame, each target candidate is sparsely represented in the space spanned by target templates and trivial templates. The sparsity is achieved by solving an � 1-regularized least squares problem. Then the candidate with the smallest projection error is taken as the tracking target. After that, tracking is continued using a Bayesian state inference framework in which a particle filter is used for propagating sample distributions over time. Two additional components further improve the robustness of our approach: 1) the nonnegativity constraints that help filter out clutter that is similar to tracked targets in reversed intensity patterns, and 2) a dynamic template update scheme that keeps track of the most representative templates throughout the tracking procedure. We test the proposed approach on five challenging sequences involving heavy occlusions, drastic illumination changes, and large pose variations. The proposed approach shows excellent performance in comparison with three previously proposed trackers. We present a new tracking method with improved efficiency and accuracy based on the subspace representation and particle filter. The subspace representation has been successfully adopted in tracking, e.g., the Eigen-tracking algorithm, and it has shown considerable robustness for tracking an object with changing appearance. Particle filters are widely used for a wide range of tracking problems since they can efficiently handle non-Gaussian and nonlinearity. Their combination has shown superior performance in terms of accuracy and robustness, but it suffers from the heavy computational load. Our tracking algorithm requires a significantly small number of particles while maintaining robustness and accuracy. We propose two methods in our tracking algorithm: first, we analyze object motion in a coarse-to-fine way and use hierarchical strategy to estimate it, in which the Kalman filter estimates global linear motion and the particle filter handles the local nonlinear motion, second, we give a more physically meaningful proposal distribution of the particle filter with consideration of the nature of motion. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our tracking algorithm in real video sequences in which the target objects undergo rapid and abrupt motion. Furthermore, we provide quantitative comparisons between the existing tracking algorithm and the proposed tracking algorithm. We propose a probabilistic filtering method which fuses joint measurements with depth images to yield a precise, real-time estimate of the end-effector pose in the camera frame. This avoids the need for frame transformations when using it in combination with visual object tracking methods. Precision is achieved by modeling and correcting biases in the joint measurements as well as inaccuracies in the robot model, such as poor extrinsic camera calibration. We make our method computationally efficient through a principled combination of Kalman filtering of the joint measurements and asynchronous depth-image updates based on the Coordinate Particle Filter. We quantitatively evaluate our approach on a dataset recorded from a real robotic platform, annotated with ground truth from a motion capture system. We show that our method is robust and accurate even under challenging conditions such as fast motion, significant and long-term occlusions, and time-varying biases. We release the dataset along with open-source code of our method to allow quantitative comparison with alternative approaches.