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This paper presents a visual particle filter for tracking a variable number of humans interacting in indoor environments, using multiple cameras. It is built upon a 3-dimensional, descriptive appearance model which features (i) a 3D shape model assembled from simple body part elements and (ii) a fast while still reliable rendering procedure developed on a key view basis of previously acquired body part color histograms. A likelihood function is derived which, embedded in an occlusion-robust multibody tracker, allows for robust and ID persistent 3D tracking in cluttered environments. We describe both model rendering and target detection procedures in detail, and report a quantitative evaluation of the approach on the ‘CLEAR’07 3D Person Tracking’ corpus.
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Lanz, O., Chippendale, P., Brunelli, R. (2008). An Appearance-Based Particle Filter for Visual Tracking in Smart Rooms. In: Stiefelhagen, R., Bowers, R., Fiscus, J. (eds) Multimodal Technologies for Perception of Humans. RT CLEAR 2007 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4625. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68585-2_4
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