Enhanced tracking and recognition of moving objects by reasoning about spatio-temporal continuity

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-81

  Bennett, Brandon ^a   Magee, Derek R ^a   Cohn, Anthony G ^a   Hogg, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuity; Resolving ambiguity; Spatial reasoning; Temporal reasoning; Visual surveillance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TARGET TRACKING;

RESOLVING AMBIGUITY; SPATIAL REASONING; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; TEMPORAL REASONING; VISUAL SURVEILLANCE;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 35748982916     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2005.08.012     Document Type: Article

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