A camera system for picking moving objects

In the environment that rejects human investigation because of burning and/or disasterous situation, searching by an autonomous vehicle shall be the reasonable solution. In this paper, we show a camera system to detect moving objects quickly in these conditions. This paper shows the system that makes the camera positioned at stationary irrespective to the vehicle motion. Using this system, it is possible to regard the position of the camera as being at a standstill on the moving vehicle, the variation of image is caused by target's motion only. This paper detects these variations by vertical projection functions of image data. Using projection functions give robustness and quickness on detection moving objects. Copyright (C) 1998 IFAC.