Tracking multiple people under occlusion and across cameras using probabilistic models

• Published in: Journal of Zhejiang University. A. Science Vol. 10; no. 7; pp. 985 - 996
• Main Authors: Wang, Xuan-he, Liu, Ji-lin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hangzhou Zhejiang University Press 01.07.2009
• Subjects: Civil Engineering; Classical and Continuum Physics; Engineering; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; 机采; 概率模型; 跟踪; 跨相; 运动模型; 闭塞; 非参数核密度估计; 颜色模型; Blob model; Color model; People occlusion; TP391; Kernel density estimation; People tracking; Motion model
• ISSN: 1673-565X; 1862-1775
• DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A0820474

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 corre-spondence 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 ofblob 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.