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Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2012

Session Number:A4L-C

Session:

Number:247

Study on Identification of People and 3D Position Measurement with Ultrasonic Sensors and Kinect sensors

Takayuki Adachi,  Masafumi Goseki,  Hiroshi Takemura,  Hiroshi Mizoguchi,  Fusako Kusunoki,  Masanori Sugimoto,  Etsuji Yamaguchi,  Shigenori Inagaki,  Takeda Yoshiaki,  

pp.247-250

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Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.1.247

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"We are developing a digital game, ""Digital SUGOROKU,"" that enables people to understand vegetation succession. In order to realize this game, it is necessary to robustly measure 3D position of people and identify them. Using ultrasonic transmitter tags with unique identifiers, ultrasonic sensor can measure 3D position and identify tagged people. But the sensor can't measure if there is no receiver in direction of ultrasonic waves from a transmitter. On the other hand, Kinect sensor can measure 3D positions of people and tracking them with OpenNI. But the sensor can't measure if occlusion occurs due to the overlapping people. In this paper, we proposed a method for 3D position measurement and identification of people by integrating ultrasonic sensors and Kinect sensors. The evaluation results show that proposed method is more robust than methods using ultrasonic sensor and Kinect sensor separately."

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