AGV Guidance System: An Application of Simple Active Contour for Visual Tracking

In this paper, a simple active contour based visual tracking algorithm is presented for outdoor AGV application which is currently under development at the USM robotic research group (URRG) lab. The presented algorithm is computationally low cost and able to track road boundaries in an image sequence and can easily be implemented on available low cost hardware. The proposed algorithm used an active shape modeling using the B-spline deformable template and recursive curve fitting method to track the current orientation of the road.

Authors:

• M.Asif
• M.R.Arshad
• P.A.Wilson

Keywords:

• Active contour
• B-spline
• recursive curve fitting.

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