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Marc,

I am giving it a try as we speak, thx a lot - I totally forgot about it.

cheers,d.

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Marc Killpack <> wrote:
> Hi Dejan,
> The pyramidal Lucas Kanade tracker in OpenCV
> (http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/cpp/video_motion_analysis_and_object_tracking.html?highlight=lk#calcOpticalFlowPyrLK)
> tracks key features from frame to frame using optical flow.  It can run at
> 15-30 Hz depending on the size of the image.  It tracks each feature
> independently but is not extremely robust to large motions or changes in
> view angles between frames.  If you have a good estimate of how some of the
> points are moving this can be fed into the algorithm.  Also playing around
> with the pyramid terms (i.e. number of levels, size of feature window, etc)
> can help but your mileage may vary.  I believe there is an lkdemo in the
> opencv2 ros package.
>
> In general this is good if you need frame rate feature tracking.  Otherwise,
> from my limited experience, I think there are better methods for feature
> matching but this is worth a try.
>
> Marc Killpack
> Healthcare Robotics Lab - Georgia Tech
>
>
>
>
>> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:14:02 +0200
>> From: Dejan Pangercic <>
>> Subject: [ros-users] Tracking of 2D Features in Images
>> To: User discussions <>
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>> Dear ROS-istas,
>>
>> is anyone aware of an efficient package or library implementation that
>> performs the tracking of 2D features in images?
>> My aim is to find out which features are moving rigidly and which not
>> with respect to each other.
>>
>> Thx for your info and best, D.
>>
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>> Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group
>> Technische Universit?t M?nchen
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Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group
Technische Universität München
Telephone: +49 (89) 289-26908
E-Mail:
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