Using particle filter to figure visual object tracking, a key problem is to choose appropriate image features as the observation model. In this paper, we present a novel particle filter based object tracking framework via the combination of state and observation optimization. We apply the technique to articulated human movement tracking. Result demonstrates the effectiveness of our method in so...

The localization and tracking of radioactive sources in public facilities like airports or stations is a problem of highest security relevance. The accumulation and the severity of terrorist attacks during the past decade give reason to the assumption that future attacks could also involve radioactive material packaged with conventional explosives. The only way to avoid such kind of attacks is ...

A novel hybrid method for tracking multiple indistinguishable maneuvering targets using a wireless sensor network is introduced in this paper. The problem of tracking the location of targets is formulated as a Maximum Likelihood Estimation. We propose a hybrid optimization method, which consists of an iterative and a heuristic search method, for finding the location of targets simultaneously. T...

Many researchers have controlled and analyzed biped robots that walk in the sagittal plane. Nevertheless, walking robots require the capability to walk merely laterally, when they are faced with the obstacles such as a wall. In walking robot field, both nonlinearity of the dynamic equations and also having a tracking system cause an effective control has to be utilized to address these problems...

Abstract The method of iterative particle reconstruction (IPR), introduced by Wieneke (Meas Sci Technol 24:024008, 2013), constitutes a major step toward Lagrangian tracking in densely seeded flows (Schanz et al. Exp Fluids 57:1–27, 2016). Here we present novel approaches several key aspects the algorithm, which, combination, triple working range IPR terms image densities. updated is proven to ...

1. Although ventilation in normal human lungs has been shown to decrease from apex to base, comparable observations are lacking in regard to particle deposition. 2. We compared regional ventilation and particle deposition in normal subjects by using radioactive xenon and a radioactive aerosol while sitting, lying, and while breathing at an increased rate. Both smokers and non-smokers were studi...

We study the dynamics of a radioactive species flowing through a porous material, within the Continuous-Time Random Walk (CTRW) approach to the modelling of stochastic transport processes. Emphasis is given to the case where radioactive decay is coupled to anomalous diffusion in locally heterogeneous media, such as porous sediments or fractured rocks. In this framework, we derive the distributi...