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Car Tracking
This project is no longer active.

Head: Simon Baker
Contact: Simon Baker

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Vision for Safe Driving

We have developed an algorithm to track cars in the surrounding road scene and then generate a "bird's eye view" of the road. Our algorithm uses an efficient, robust tracking algorithm (see here for more details) and a novel template update algorithm (see here for more details). Example results are shown in the movie below.

Example: car tracking and Bird's Eye View generation.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Simon Baker - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct)
• Takahiro Ishikawa - Visiting Industrial Scholar
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof. <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Iain Matthews - Senior Systems Scientist <iainm@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)>

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• The Template Update Problem
  I. Matthews, T. Ishikawa, and S. Baker
  Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, September, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [431 KB] copyrighted

• Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: A Unifying Framework: Part 2
  S. Baker, R. Gross, I. Matthews, and T. Ishikawa
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [467 KB] copyrighted

• Efficient Image Alignment with Outlier Rejection
  T. Ishikawa, I. Matthews, and S. Baker
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2522 KB] copyrighted