Robust tracking of persons in real-world scenarios using a statistical computer vision approach

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 571-582

  Rigoll, Gerhard ^a   Breit, Harald ^a   Wallhoff, Frank ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background adaptation; Hidden Markov models; Kalman filter; Person tracking; Statistical object modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; KALMAN FILTERING; MARKOV PROCESSES; VIDEO CAMERAS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BACKGROUND ADAPTATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; PERSON TRACKING; STATISTICAL OBJECT MODELING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 2342598359     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2003.09.014     Document Type: Article

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