US-Korea Cooperative Research on Model-Based Analysis of Moving Objects for Video Tracking

该奖项支持田纳西大学的Muni Abidi和Andreas Koschan与一名博士后研究员和一名研究生在韩国首尔中昂大学高级成像科学研究生院与Joonki Paik教授及其研究小组建立图像处理研究合作关系。他们将共同建立一个理论框架，用于在二维(韩国组)和三维(美国组)跟踪一个或多个移动对象。他们的研究将使用多个有源视频传感器，并将探索图像处理技术，以增强由自主控制的专用摄像头收集的输入图像。稳定来自运动视频传感器的输入图像是一项具有挑战性的任务，因为相机的不规则运动及其用于对焦、调节快门速度和光圈以及增益控制的自我控制机制。计算效率是在各种计算平台上实现实时视频跟踪的首要问题。这项工作的预期结果是在用于视频跟踪的软件和硬件方面都有所改进。这项研究的重要社会效益是改进了对大面积安全的基于视频的监控，并加强了对危险情况下使用的机器人的控制。这项研究的更广泛影响包括对参与研究的学生和博士后的教育价值，他们将有机会获得美国和韩国的补充最先进的设备，同时受益于在另一个国家进行研究合作和建立专业联系的经验。

0318427AbidiThis award supports Mongi Abidi and Andreas Koschan of the University of Tennessee, together with a postdoctoral fellow and a graduate student, to establish a research collaboration in image processing with Professor Joonki Paik and his research group at the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science of Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Korea. Together they will build a theoretical framework for tracking one or more moving objects in two dimensions (Korean group) and in three dimensions (US group.) Their research will use multiple active video sensors and they will explore image-processing techniques to enhance input images gathered by a self-controlled specialized camera. Stabilizing input images from moving video sensors is a challenging task because of the irregular movements of the camera as well as its self-controlled mechanisms for focusing, adjusting shutter speed and iris, and gain control. Computational efficiency is the primary issue for achieving real-time video tracking on various computing platforms. The anticipated results of this work are improvements in both software and hardware used for video tracking. Important societal benefits of this research are improved video-based surveillance for security of large areas and enhanced control of robots used in hazardous situations. Broader impacts of this research include the educational value to the participating student and postdoc who will have access to complementary state-of-the-art equipment in the U.S. and Korea, while benefiting from the experience of research collaboration and establishing professional contacts in another country.