Multi-person Tracking Research Articles

모바일 플랫폼 기반의 사람 추적 감시시스템

본 논문에서는 휴대폰을 위한 무선 인터넷 플랫폼의 표준인 WIPI를 이용한 모바일 시스템과 사람추적 시스템을 결합한 모바일 플랫폼 기반의 사람추적 감시시스템을 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 크게 사람추적 시스템과 모바일 정보교환 시스템으로 구분된다. 사람추적 시스템에서는 감시지역에 침입한 사람들을 추적하고, 모바일 정보교환 시스템은 사람추적 시스템에서 추적된 결과를 사용자의 모바일 폰으로 전송한다. 본 논문에서 사용하는 사람추적 시스템은 넓은 시야 확보를 위해 카메라의 시야를 겹치지 않게 배치한 상태에서 사람들을 추적한다. 모바일 정보교환 시스템은 추적된 결과를 서버에 자동적으로 저장하여 사용자의 WIPI 모바일 폰으로 저장된 정보를 전달하게 된다. 따라서 추후에 사용자가 감시상황을 재확인하고자 했을 시, 카메라 별 또는 시간 별로 선택하여 영상을 재확인 할 수 있다. 제안된 시스템은 추적 영역과 감시 영역의 공간적 제약과 감시 시간의 시간적 제약을 해결하기 위해 카메라들과 모바일 폰 사이의 추적결과를 교환할 수 있는 새로운 형태의 감시시스템이다. In this paper, we propose a surveillance system using multi-person tracking in a WIPI based mobile system, which is the standard wireless internet platform. The proposed system consists of two subsystems: the person tracking system and the mobile information transmission system. The person tracking system tracks persons who invade security and the mobile information transmission system sends the tracking results from the person tracking system to the user's mobile phone. In this paper, the person tracking system tracks persons who appear on many cameras with non-overlapping views in order to achieve a wider view. The mobile information transmission system saves automatically tracked data to the owner's web server and transmits the saved data to the user's WIPI mobile phone. Therefore, whenever the user wishes to view tracked data later, the mobile system can provide the user with the tracking results by either the user selecting particular cameras or the time on the owner's mobile phone. The proposed system is a new surveillance system that transfers tracked data among cameras to the user's mobile phone in order to overcome space limitations in tracking areas and monitoring areas and spatial limitations in monitoring hours.

Probabilistic Multi-Person Tracking by Using Relative Position Measurements with Occlusion Reasoning

A problem of probabilistic vision-based multi-person tracking with a monocular camera in a cluttered office environment is addressed. In such a case, it is often difficult to obtain reliable measurements of the absolute position of a person on the floor plane due to the inherent uncertainty in depth. To deal with this problem, a novel measurement technique based on occlusion reasoning is proposed and combined with a standard particle filtering technique. This technique is based on the relative position of a person with respect to background objects. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is investigated in an experiment where two persons overlap on the image plane.

Nonadaptive Group testing based fiber sensor deployment for multiperson tracking

We demonstrate a novel use of nonadaptive group testing in the design and implementation of a fiber sensor floor web for the localization and tracking of multiple individuals. We validate our design with a floor web woven with optical fiber threads that form a grid of cells, with a different subset of fibers on each cell. Sensors detect the presence of a person by the change in light transmission due to microbending when a fiber is stepped upon. Nonadaptive group testing permits the determination of a minimum number of sensors and the proper allocation of monitored cells to each sensor. The simultaneous presence of individuals on any combination of up to a small number of cells generates a unique sensor response. Our proof of concept implementation of an 8/spl times/8 grid requires the use of only 16 sensors and off-the-shelf inexpensive components to decipher the position of up to two individuals. This experiment proves the feasibility of our design and its extensibility to higher number of cells and simultaneous targets.

Dynamic Context Capture and Distributed Video Arrays for Intelligent Spaces

Intelligent environments can be viewed as systems where humans and machines (rooms) collaborate. Intelligent (or smart) environments need to extract and maintain an awareness of a wide range of events and human activities occurring in these spaces. This requirement is crucial for supporting efficient and effective interactions among humans as well as humans and intelligent spaces. Visual information plays an important role for developing accurate and useful representation of the static and dynamic states of an intelligent environment. Accurate and efficient capture, analysis, and summarization of the dynamic context requires the vision system to work at multiple levels of semantic abstractions in a robust manner. In this paper, we present details of a long-term and ongoing research project, where indoor intelligent spaces endowed with a range of useful functionalities are designed, built, and systematically evaluated. Some of the key functionalities include: intruder detection; multiple person tracking; body pose and posture analysis; person identification; human body modeling and movement analysis; and for integrated systems for intelligent meeting rooms, teleconferencing, or performance spaces. The paper includes an overall system architecture to support design and development of intelligent environments. Details of panoramic (omnidirectional) video camera arrays, calibration, video stream synchronization, and real-time capture/processing are discussed. Modules for multicamera-based multiperson tracking, event detection and event based servoing for selective attention, voxelization, streaming face recognition, are also discussed. The paper includes experimental studies to systematically evaluate performance of individual video analysis modules as well as to evaluate basic feasibility of an integrated system for dynamic context capture and event based servoing, and semantic information summarization.