Book description
This book has two main goals: to provide a unifed and structured
overview of this growing field, as well as to propose a corresponding
software framework, the OpenTL library, developed by the author and his
working group at TUM-Informatik.
The main objective of this work is to show, how most real-world
application scenarios can be naturally cast into a common description
vocabulary, and therefore implemented and tested in a fully modular
and scalable way, through the defnition of a layered, object-oriented
software architecture. The resulting architecture covers in a seamless
way all processing levels, from raw data acquisition up to model-based
object detection and sequential localization, and defines, at the
application level, what we call the tracking pipeline. Within this
framework, extensive use of graphics hardware (GPU computing) as well
as distributed processing, allows real-time performances for complex
models and sensory systems.
Giorgio Panin, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at
the Technical University of Munich. His research focuses on robotics
and embedded systems, with an emphasis on computer vision and object
tracking for human-machine interaction, robot manipulation, and
navigation tasks.
