Teaching and Programing for Robots. High Speed Target Tracking Algorithm for 1ms Visual Feedback System.

Abstract

Most conventional visual feedback systems using CCD camera are restricted by video rates and therefore cannot be adapted to the changing environment sufficiently quickly. To solve this problem we developed a 1 ms visual feedback system using a general purpose massively parallel processing vision system in which photo-detectors and processing elements are directly connected. For high speed visual feedback fast image processing algorithms are also required. In particular, the difference of images between frames is very small in our system because of its high speed frame rate. Using this feature, we can realize several image processing techniques by simpler algorithms.In this paper we propose a simple algorithm for target tracking using the feature of high speed vision, and realize target tracking on the 1 ms visual feedback system.