APPEARANCE-BASED HUMAN GALLERY CONSTRUCTION FROM VIDEO

Kyongil Yoon, Yaser Yacoob, David Harwood, Larry Davis

2007

Abstract

An approach for constructing a dynamic gallery of people observed in a video stream is described. We consider two scenarios that require determining the number and identity of participants: outdoor surveillance and meeting rooms. In these applications face identification is typically not feasible due to the low resolution across the face. The proposed approach automatically computes an appearance model based on the clothing of people and employs this model in constructing and matching the gallery of participants. The appearance model uses color/path-length profile and a robust distance measure based on Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and Kullback-Leibler (KL) distance, to evaluate similarity between people and add models to the gallery. A one-to-one constraint is enforced to correctly match instances to models at each frame. In the meeting room scenario we exploit the fact that the relative locations of subjects are likely to remain unchanged for the whole sequence.

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in Harvard Style

Yoon K., Yacoob Y., Harwood D. and Davis L. (2007). APPEARANCE-BASED HUMAN GALLERY CONSTRUCTION FROM VIDEO . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-13-5, pages 332-337. DOI: 10.5220/0002142103320337


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap07,
author={Kyongil Yoon and Yaser Yacoob and David Harwood and Larry Davis},
title={APPEARANCE-BASED HUMAN GALLERY CONSTRUCTION FROM VIDEO},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={332-337},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002142103320337},
isbn={978-989-8111-13-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2007)
TI - APPEARANCE-BASED HUMAN GALLERY CONSTRUCTION FROM VIDEO
SN - 978-989-8111-13-5
AU - Yoon K.
AU - Yacoob Y.
AU - Harwood D.
AU - Davis L.
PY - 2007
SP - 332
EP - 337
DO - 10.5220/0002142103320337