Robot Target Tracking Using Cached Features to Reduce False Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current robots with human face tracking functions suffer from high false recognition rates, leading to poor tracking performance.

Innovation Solution

A target tracking method that determines and stores a target object feature, matches recognized object features with the stored feature, and re-finds the target object by matching with cached features upon loss, reducing interference and false recognition.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If object feature recognition is performed continuously to improve tracking reliability, then false recognition rate increases, but tracking reliability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetracking reliabilityVSAvoidfalse recognition rate
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by caching the target object feature in advance before tracking begins. This cached feature serves as a reference template that enables rapid comparison and identification during tracking, eliminating the need for continuous complex recognition operations and reducing false recognition while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the target object feature and stores it in cache memory. This copied feature template is then used for quick comparison against recognized objects during tracking, significantly reducing computational complexity and false recognition rates while maintaining high tracking reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If complex feature matching is performed to reduce false recognition, then processing time increases, but productivity decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefalse recognition rateVSAvoidprocessing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The target object feature is extracted and cached in advance before tracking operations begin. This preliminary extraction creates a ready-to-use reference template that eliminates the need for repeated complex feature extraction during tracking, significantly improving processing speed while maintaining accurate matching through the pre-established template

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts only the essential target object feature and stores it separately in cache memory, isolating this critical information from the main processing flow. This extraction enables rapid comparison operations during tracking without requiring complex real-time analysis, thus improving processing speed while maintaining low false recognition rates

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20250252707A1Target Tracking Method, Target Tracking Apparatus, And Robot
Publication Date: 2025.08.07 MIDEA GRP (SHANGHAI) CO LTD
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AI summary

The present application provides a target tracking method, a target tracking apparatus, and a robot. The target tracking method includes: determining a target object to be tracked, and storing a target object feature of the target object; in response to an object feature of a recognized object matching the target object feature that is pre-stored, tracking the recognized object; and in response to the object feature of the recognized object not matching the target object feature that is pre-stored, proceeding with object feature recognition of an object within a field of view; and in a case where the object feature matching the target object feature that is pre-stored is recognized again, tracking the object that is recognized once again.