Abstract:A guiding robot aims to effectively bring people to and from specific places within environments that are possibly unknown to them. During this operation the robot should be able to detect and track the accompanied person, trying never to lose sight of her/him. A solution to minimize this event is to use an omnidirectional camera: its 360 • Field of View (FoV) guarantees that any framed object cannot leave the FoV if not occluded or very far from the sensor. However, the acquired panoramic videos introduce new… Show more
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