Title

Leveraging human behavior models to predict paths in indoor environments

Authors

Authors

B. Tastan;G. Sukthankar

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Pervasive Mob. Comput.

Keywords

Path prediction; Human tracking; Particle filters; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; TRACKING; Computer Science, Information Systems; Telecommunications

Abstract

One of the most powerful constraints governing many activity recognition problems is that imposed by the human actor. Iris well known that humans have a large set of physical and cognitive limitations that constrain their execution of various tasks. In this article, we show how prior knowledge of these perception and locomotion limitations can be exploited to enhance path prediction and tracking in indoor environments for pervasive computing applications. We demonstrate an approach for path prediction based on a model of visually guided steering that has been validated on human obstacle avoidance data. Our approach outperforms standard motion models in a particle filter tracker during occlusion periods of greater than one second and results in a significant reduction in SSD tracking error. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volume

7

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

319

Last Page

330

WOS Identifier

WOS:000299669300004

ISSN

1574-1192

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