Authors:
Kristof Van Beeck
1
and
Toon Goedemé
2
Affiliations:
1
Campus De Nayer - KU Leuven, Belgium
;
2
Campus De Nayer - KU Leuven and KU Leuven, Belgium
Keyword(s):
Pedestrian Detection, Tracking, Surveillance, Computer Vision, Real-time.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision
;
Tracking and Visual Navigation
;
Video Surveillance and Event Detection
Abstract:
This paper proposes a novel approach for real-time robust pedestrian tracking in surveillance images. Such images are challenging to analyse since the overall image quality is low (e.g. low resolution and high compression). Furthermore often birds-eye viewpoint wide-angle lenses are used to achieve maximum coverage with a minimal amount of cameras. These specific viewpoints make it difficult - or even unfeasible - to directly apply existing pedestrian detection techniques. Moreover, real-time processing speeds are required. To overcome these problems we introduce a pedestrian detection and tracking framework which exploits and integrates these scene constraints to achieve excellent accuracy results. We performed extensive experiments on challenging real-life video sequences concerning both speed and accuracy. We show that our approach achieves excellent accuracy results while still meeting the stringent real-time demands needed for these surveillance applications, using only a single
-core CPU implementation.
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