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We present a comparative study for tracking multiple persons using cameras with overlapping views. The evaluated methods consist of two batch mode trackers (Berclaz et al, 2011, Ben-Shitrit et al, 2011) and one recursive tracker (Liem and Gavrila, 2011), which integrate appearance cues and temporal information differently. We also added our own improved version of the recursive tracker. Furthermore, we investigate the effect of the type of background estimation (static vs. adaptive) on tracking performance. Experiments are performed on two novel and challenging multi-person surveillance data sets (indoor, outdoor), made public to facilitate benchmarking. We show that our adaptation of the recursive method outperforms the other stand-alone trackers.
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Liem, M.C., Gavrila, D.M. (2013). A Comparative Study on Multi-person Tracking Using Overlapping Cameras. In: Chen, M., Leibe, B., Neumann, B. (eds) Computer Vision Systems. ICVS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7963. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39402-7_21
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