P finder: real-time tracking of the human body

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 780-785

  Wren, Christopher Richard ^a   Azarbayejani, Ali ^a   Darrell, Trevor ^a   Pentland, Alex Paul ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

3D person tracking; Blob tracking; Blobs; Gesture recognition; MDL; Mixture model; Person tracking; Real time; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BLOB TRACKING; GESTURE RECOGNITION; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031187308     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.598236     Document Type: Article

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