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Welcome to the wiki home page for the Thermal Fusion UROS project.

This project aims to develop a novel sensing platform, which combines colour, thermal and depth modalities for the monitoring of humans. People tracking is a topic within the School of Computer Science which is well established and researched thoroughly.

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Contents

1. Installation Instructions (Windows/Linux (Ubuntu))
2. Required Hardware
3. Calibration Process
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6. References

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Project Goals:

The initial aims of this project are to achieve the following goals:

• The development of a novel sensing platform which allows for practical evaluation of algorithms for people monitoring.
• To produce a set of experimental data for use by researchers at a future date.
• Construction of new software components which contribute to the research infrastructure of the school of computer science, with abilities for possible future expansion.
• To produce and regularly update a project blog, which will highlight tasks achieved at regular intervals throughout the project duration.

Installation Process:

See the Step-by-step Installation instructions page for instructions of how to set-up all necessary packages for this project.

Rationale:

There is much potential for a platform which has capabilities for people tracking, including such applications as a surveillance system during crowded public events, for example. Many current monitoring systems rely on data gathered from standard RGB colour cameras, which work well but suffer from performance issues during times of low lighting conditions. By using a combination of depth and thermal sensors, these problems are mostly overcome. As of yet, only few applications exist, which consist of both depth and thermal sensors for people tracking.

Acknowledgements

This is a project organised by the University of Lincoln, with funding and technical support from:

• CERD (Center for Educational Research and Development) - Responsible for this project's funding.
• LSoCS (University of Lincoln School of Computer Science) - Provided invaluable feedback and supervision throughout the entire project, including access to all equipment and hardware needed.