Implementation of opto-digital stereo object tracking system

摘要

In this paper, a new opto-digital stereo object tracking system using the variable window mask and the optical binary phase extraction joint transform correlator (BPEJTC) is proposed. At the first step, with the distance information from the stereo camera to the tracking object easily acquired by the structural elements of a stereo vision system, the area of the tracking object can be digitally extracted by using the variable window mask. And, at the second step, by carrying out the optical BPEJTC between this reference image obtained from the variable window mask and the stereo input image, the coordinates of the tracking object's location can be acquired, and then with these values, the convergence angle and the pan/tilt of the stereo tracking camera can be finally controlled. From some experimental results, the proposed system is found to be able to effectively extract the area of the target object from the input image having the background noises by using the variable window mask. And, with the location values of the tracking object obtained by using the optical BPEJTC, the convergence angle and the pan/tilt of the stereo cameras can be controlled. Finally, a feasibility of real-time implementation of the adaptive stereo object tracking system using the proposed algorithm is also suggested.