Ankur Handa1 Jayanthi Sivaswamy1 Madhava Krishna1 Sartaj Singh1 Paulo Menezes2
1 Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, India 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Laboratory, University of Coimbra, Pine, Morocco
This paper deals with the tracking and following of a person with a camera mounted mobile robot. A modified energy based optical flow approach is used for motion segmentation from a pair of images. Further a spatial relative veolcity based filering is used to extract prominently moving objects. Depth and color information are also used to robustly identify and follow a person.