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Philip L. Kahn

General Manager at FLIR Systems Inc

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Proceedings Article | 5 March 1996 Paper

Active vision for security and surveillance

H. Nishihara, J. Brian Burns, Philip Kahn, Richard Marks, Stanley Rosenschein

Proceedings Volume 2661, (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.234652

KEYWORDS: Surveillance, Video surveillance, Video, Cameras, Optical tracking, Computer security, Visualization, Image processing, 3D modeling, Motion detection

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In both the public and private sectors, there is increasing demand for systems that take advantage of on-line sensor data and especially real-time video data. In many of these applications, special-purpose sensors, coupled with structured work environments, have made it possible to deploy versions of working systems. Despite these early successes, however, the economics of deployment remain unfavorable. In the security and surveillance domain, the ability to do quick detection and classification of objects can add value to systems monitoring an interior area for intruders or performing outdoor perimeter control. Current-generation motion-detection systems are hampered by their inability to recognize or classify the objects causing the motion. The coupled detection, tracking, and recognition techniques reported in this paper would immediately increase the value of intrusion-detection systems and reduce the personnel needed to man them. This paper reports on progress in three areas: The first emphasizes real-time perception mechanisms involving motion based detection and tracking of figures with a camera having pan-tilt-zoom control. The second component focuses on recognition mechanisms which allow reacquisition of tracked targets when they undergo various kinds of occlusion. It will also be used for discriminating people from other moving agents. The third discusses trends in real-time system performance arguing that the gap between commodity PC platforms and special purpose accelerators is narrowing.

Proceedings Article | 30 April 1992 Paper

Specification and control of behavioral robot programs

Philip Kahn

Proceedings Volume 1611, (1992) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.57933

KEYWORDS: Foam, Control systems, Information operations, Algorithm development, Robotics, Computer programming, Sensor fusion, Composites, Nanoimprint lithography, Sensors

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Behavioral robotics is the specification and control of robots as a composition, coordination, and adaptation of more primitive sub-behaviors. The past decade has led to the development of many useful algorithms that can support valuable behavioral function in robots (e.g., perception, robotics, planning, domain rules). Increased availability of these component algorithms increases the need for robot control methods that can select between gross behaviors in addition to providing control within a given behavior. For example, gross behavioral changes may consider when and whether to attend to new stimuli, and if and how that stimuli can lead to new or different behaviors. This paper describes an approach being developed for the specification and control of these types of behavioral programs. The first section introduces a task oriented approach to behavioral robot program specification and control. The second section then describes a Behavioral Architecture for Robot Tasks (BART) being developed. A BART language is being built to provide a portable tool to support various robot programming and execution strategies, evidence accrual methods, and domain representations. This language is being used to develop behavioral programs that control tanks and tank platoons.

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