Research Article Open Access

CHILD VIDEO DATASET TOOL TO DEVELOP OBJECT TRACKING SIMULATES BABYSITTER VISION ROBOT

Hanan Aljuaid1 and Dzulkifli Mohamad2
  • 1 Taif University, Saudi Arabia
  • 2 University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia

Abstract

This study presents a Child Video Dataset (CVDS) that has numerous videos of different ages and situation of children. To simulate a babysitter’s vision, our application was developed to track objects in a scene with the main goal of creating a reliable and operative moving child-object detection system. The aim of this study is to explore novel algorithms to track a child-object in an indoor and outdoor background video. It focuses on tracking a whole child-object while simultaneously tracking the body parts of that object to produce a positive system. This effort suggests an approach for labeling three body sections, i.e., the head, upper and lower sections and then for detecting a specific area within the three sections and tracking this section using a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) algorithm according to the labeling technique. The system is applied in three situations: Child-object walking, crawling and seated moving. During system experimentation, walking object tracking provided the best performance, achieving 91.932% for body-part tracking and 96.235% for whole-object tracking. Crawling object tracking achieved 90.832% for body-part tracking and 96.231% for whole object tracking. Finally, seated-moving-object tracking achieved 89.7% for body-part tracking and 93.4% for whole-object tracking.

Journal of Computer Science
Volume 10 No. 2, 2014, 296-304

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2014.296.304

Submitted On: 4 September 2013 Published On: 16 November 2013

How to Cite: Aljuaid, H. & Mohamad, D. (2014). CHILD VIDEO DATASET TOOL TO DEVELOP OBJECT TRACKING SIMULATES BABYSITTER VISION ROBOT. Journal of Computer Science, 10(2), 296-304. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2014.296.304

  • 3,789 Views
  • 2,640 Downloads
  • 3 Citations

Download

Keywords

  • Object Detection and Tracking
  • Object Detection and Tracking Dataset
  • Body Part Tracking
  • Computer Vision
  • Robot Vision
  • Babysitter Robot Vision
  • GMM