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This paper describes the use of a low level, computationally inexpensive motion detector to initiate a higher level motion tracker based on an elliptical active contour or snake. The contour tracker is in turn used to direct a camera mounted on a robot arm to track head shaped objects.
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Torr, P.H.S., Wong, T., Murray, D.W., Zisserman, A. (1991). Cooperating motion processes. In: Mowforth, P. (eds) BMVC91. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1921-0_19
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