A vision-based approach to early detection of drowning incidents in swimming pools

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 159-178

  Lu, Wenmiao ^a   Tan, Yap Peng ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Background modeling; Drowning incident; Human motion analysis; Segmentation and tracking; Sequential change detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FINITE AUTOMATA; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MOTION ESTIMATION;

EVEN INFERENCE MODULE; HUMAN MOTION ANALYSIS; SEQUENTIAL CHANGE DETECTION ALGORITHM;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 1642301440     PISSN: 10518215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2003.821980     Document Type: Article

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