Font Size: Tracing Method for Observing Children with the Movable camera
Satoshi Hatsumura, Akira Suganuma · 2017
There is a problem of the lack of nursery school in Japan in these days. One cause of the problem is that many job seekers with nursery qualifications don't want to be nursery teachers because of heavy workload. One of the solutions seems to be to build a situation that they tend to become nursery teachers by reducing the workload. We have, therefore, developed a children watching system which detects and tracks groups of children and records them with a movable camera. Our system reduces the nursery teacher's workload if it is able to observe children in the person of the teacher. It is able to record even plural targets with scheduling to focus on each target individually. We evaluated our method with the prototype system. It records two examinees who played like children in front of the camera with some scenarios we prepared. As our experimental result, we confirmed that our system can track and record each target.