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Tracking Objects Across Cameras by Incrementally Learning Inter-camera Colour Calibration and Patterns of Activity

  • Andrew Gilbert
  • Richard Bowden
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3952)

Abstract

This paper presents a scalable solution to the problem of tracking objects across spatially separated, uncalibrated, non-overlapping cameras. Unlike other approaches this technique uses an incremental learning method, to model both the colour variations and posterior probability distributions of spatio-temporal links between cameras. These operate in parallel and are then used with an appearance model of the object to track across spatially separated cameras. The approach requires no pre-calibration or batch preprocessing, is completely unsupervised, and becomes more accurate over time as evidence is accumulated.

Keywords

Appearance Model Colour Similarity Observation Likelihood Coarse Quantisation Valid Link 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Andrew Gilbert
    • 1
  • Richard Bowden
    • 1
  1. 1.CVSSPUniversity of SurreyGuildfordEngland

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