ITERATIVE RIGID BODY TRANSFORMATION ESTIMATION FOR VISUAL 3-D OBJECT TRACKING

Micha Hersch, Thomas Reichert, Aude Aude

2008

Abstract

We present a novel yet simple 3D stereo vision tracking algorithm which computes the position and orientation of an object from the location of markers attached to the object. The novelty of this algorithm is that it does not assume that the markers are tracked synchronously. This provides a higher robustness to the noise in the data, missing points and outliers. The principle of the algorithm is to perform a simple gradient descent on the rigid body transformation describing the object position and orientation. This is proved to converge to the correct solution and is illustrated in a simple experimental setup involving two USB cameras.

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in Harvard Style

Hersch M., Reichert T. and Aude A. (2008). ITERATIVE RIGID BODY TRANSFORMATION ESTIMATION FOR VISUAL 3-D OBJECT TRACKING . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-21-0, pages 674-677. DOI: 10.5220/0001087106740677


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp08,
author={Micha Hersch and Thomas Reichert and Aude Aude},
title={ITERATIVE RIGID BODY TRANSFORMATION ESTIMATION FOR VISUAL 3-D OBJECT TRACKING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={674-677},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001087106740677},
isbn={978-989-8111-21-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2008)
TI - ITERATIVE RIGID BODY TRANSFORMATION ESTIMATION FOR VISUAL 3-D OBJECT TRACKING
SN - 978-989-8111-21-0
AU - Hersch M.
AU - Reichert T.
AU - Aude A.
PY - 2008
SP - 674
EP - 677
DO - 10.5220/0001087106740677