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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University College London
An EM/E-MRF algorithm for adaptive model based tracking in extremely poor visibility
This work is the culmination of a 12 year research programme by Greig into vision in poor visibility. Most image processing work assumes good visibility but this paper is distinctive and original because the tracking algorithm was designed to operate in degraded visibility. The algorithm was successfully validated using a robot mounted camera to track an object obscured by mist. The work was funded by the EPSRC and Sira Ltd (EPSRC Grant Ref. 99313004) and has potential application for underwater vision where degraded visibility is a real problem and many existing image processing algorithms cannot accommodate this.