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A New Method for Auto-calibrated Object Tracking

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UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005)

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Ubiquitous computing technologies which are cheap and easy to use are more likely to be adopted by users beyond the ubiquitous computing community. We present an ultrasonic-only tracking system that is cheap to build, self-calibrating and self-orientating, and has a convenient form factor. The system tracks low-power tags in three dimensions. The tags are smaller than AAA batteries and last up to several years on their power source. The system can be configured to track either multiple near-stationary objects or a single fast moving object. Full test results are provided and use of the system within a home application is discussed.

Funding for this work is received from the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as part of the Equator IRC, GR-N-15986.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, U.K

    Paul Duff, Michael McCarthy, Angus Clark, Henk Muller & Cliff Randell

  2. Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K

    Shahram Izadi

  3. Royal College of Art, U.K

    Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pennington & Richard Swinford

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  1. Distributed and Ubiquitous Systems, Muehlenpfordtstr. 23, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Michael Beigl

  2. House_n, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, One Cambridge Center, 4FL, 02142, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Stephen Intille

  3. Interaction Laboratory, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., 3-14-13 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, 141-0022, Tokyo, Japan

    Jun Rekimoto

  4. Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, 5322, Endo, Fujisawa, 252-8520, Kanagawa, Japan

    Hideyuki Tokuda

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Duff, P. et al. (2005). A New Method for Auto-calibrated Object Tracking. In: Beigl, M., Intille, S., Rekimoto, J., Tokuda, H. (eds) UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3660. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551201_8

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