CSC560: Design and Analysis of Real Time Systems

We have established a need for an object tracker using only the depth values provided by a Kinect camera in the previous sections. This section describes the requirements for this tracker. We will also mention some assumptions the tracker can make on the objects to be tracked and the tracking environment, i.e., the background.

The operating environment for the tracker is as follows.

• The tracker should be portable. It takes minimal effort to set up the tracker both in indoor and in outdoor.
• The tracker should be able to operate in the dark.
• The tracker can track at least 4 objects.
• The tracker can run in real-time (10 Hz); updates are made 10 times a second.

The tracker can assume the following.

• The number of the objects to be tracked are known and they remain in the view port the entire time the tracker is active.
• The objects are similarly shaped and it is known.
• The intended future trajectories of the objects are known to the tracker.
• The background is static.

We hope that these simplifying assumptions will enable us to develop a tracker successfully and meet the project goal.