Pixel Tracking! (Dog Tracking)
13 Aug 2012
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Ever wonder what your dog gets up to at home? Well I do a lot, this weekend I decided to setup a temporary solution to see what my dog does. Here are some day 1 results, only the masks to protect my dogs(Pixel) and my privacy!
Pixel Relaxing on sofa
Pixel leaping off the sofa
Exploring?
This was achieved writing no code (sad I know) but was more of an exploration to see what Linux tools are around for doing this type of thing. i used the motion project(http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome) with some parameter playing, pretty simple out of the box. What I found was the tools are ok, not very out of the box and didn’t really work that great. So this is spawning a project for me.
With the computer vision knowledge I have I think I should be able to mock up a good tracker with all sorts of bells and whistles, to allow me track my dog moving around during the day learn where he likes to sleep dig into what motions he performs possibly even guess when the mail man comes each day and if there are cats around to annoy him.
The one useful piece of information I have learnt from looking back through the days activity, is that my dog really is as lazy as originally expected. Spends most of his day asleep on sofa explaining why he has so much energy when I get home. Most motion over the day was him moving into a new position!
Assistant Professor in Visual Computing at Durham University. Stuart's research focus is on Visual Reasoning to understand the layout of visual content from Iconography (e.g. Sketches) to 3D Scene understanding and their implications on methods of interaction. He is currently a co-I on the RePAIR EU FET, DCitizens EU Twinning, and BoSS EU Lighthouse. He was a co-I on the MEMEX RIA EU H2020 project coordinated at IIT for increasing social inclusion with Cultural Heritage. Stuart has previously held a Researcher & PostDoc positions at IIT as well as PostDocs at University College London (UCL), and the University of Surrey. Also, at the University of Surrey, Stuart was awarded his PhD on visual information retrieval for sketches. Stuart holds an External Scientist at IIT, Honorary roles UCL and UCL Digital Humanities, and an international collaborator of ITI/LARSyS. He also regularly organises Vision for Art (VISART) workshop and Humanities-orientated tutorials and was Program Chair at British Machine Conference (BMVC) 2021.