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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2009, Vol. 10 Issue (7): 985-996    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A0820474
Electrical and Electronic Engineering     
Tracking multiple people under occlusion and across cameras using probabilistic models
Xuan-he WANG, Ji-lin LIU
Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Network Technology, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Abstract  Tracking multiple people under occlusion and across cameras is a challenging question for discussion. Furthermore, the cameras in this study are used to extend the field of view, which are distinguished from the same field of view. Such correspondence between multiple cameras is a burgeoning research subject in the area of computer vision. This paper effectively solves the problems of tracking multiple people who pass from one camera to another and segmenting people under occlusion using probabilistic models. The probabilistic models are composed of blob model, motion model and color model, which make the most of the space, motion and color information. First, we present a color model that uses maximum likelihood estimation based on non-parametric kernel density estimation. Second, we introduce a blob model based on mean shift, which segments the body into many regions according to the color of each person in order to spatially localize the color features corresponding to the way people are dressed. Clothes can be any mixture of colors. Third, we bring forward a motion model based on statistical probability which indicates the movement position of the same person between two successive frames in a single camera. Finally, we effectively unify the three models into a general probabilistic model and attain a maximization likelihood probability image, which is used to segment the foreground region under occlusion and to match people across multiple cameras.

Key wordsColor model      Motion model      Blob model      People occlusion      People tracking      Kernel density estimation     
Received: 21 June 2008     
CLC:  TP391  
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Xuan-he WANG, Ji-lin LIU. Tracking multiple people under occlusion and across cameras using probabilistic models. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2009, 10(7): 985-996.

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http://www.zjujournals.com/xueshu/zjus-a/10.1631/jzus.A0820474     OR     http://www.zjujournals.com/xueshu/zjus-a/Y2009/V10/I7/985

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