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Dynamic subset selection for multi-camera tracking

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Scott Spurlock,

Richard SouvenirAuthors Info & Claims

ACMSE '12: Proceedings of the 50th annual ACM Southeast Conference

Pages 244 - 249

https://doi.org/10.1145/2184512.2184570

Published: 29 March 2012 Publication History

Abstract

While multi-camera methods for object tracking tend to out-perform their single-camera counterparts, the data aggregation schemes can introduce new challenges, such as resource management and algorithm complexity. We present a framework for dynamically choosing the best subset of available cameras for tracking in real-time, which reduces aggregate tracking error and resource consumption and can be applied to a variety of existing base tracking models. We demonstrate on challenging video sequences of players in a basketball game. Our method is able to successfully track targets entering and exiting camera views and through occlusions, and overcome instances of single-view tracking drift.

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Hu TMesselodi SLanz O(2015)Dynamic task decomposition for decentralized object tracking in complex scenesComputer Vision and Image Understanding10.1016/j.cviu.2015.02.007134:C(89-104)Online publication date: 1-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cviu.2015.02.007
Hu TMesselodi SLanz OPrati AMartinel N(2014)Wide-area Multi-camera Multi-object Tracking with Dynamic Task DecompositionProceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras10.1145/2659021.2659033(1-6)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2659021.2659033

Index Terms

Dynamic subset selection for multi-camera tracking
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision problems
        Tracking
      2. Computer vision tasks
        Scene understanding
        Video summarization

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DOI:10.1145/2184512

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Hu TMesselodi SLanz O(2015)Dynamic task decomposition for decentralized object tracking in complex scenesComputer Vision and Image Understanding10.1016/j.cviu.2015.02.007134:C(89-104)Online publication date: 1-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cviu.2015.02.007
Hu TMesselodi SLanz OPrati AMartinel N(2014)Wide-area Multi-camera Multi-object Tracking with Dynamic Task DecompositionProceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras10.1145/2659021.2659033(1-6)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2659021.2659033

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