People tracking using a network-based PTZ camera

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 671-690

  Varcheie, Parisa Darvish Zadeh ^a   Bilodeau, Guillaume Alexandre ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feature based tracking; Fuzzy tracking; IP PTZ camera; Low frame rate tracking; People tracking

Indexed keywords

FEATURE-BASED TRACKING; FRAME RATE; FUZZY TRACKING; PEOPLE TRACKING; PTZ CAMERA;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; WEB SERVICES;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 80053908388     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-010-0300-1     Document Type: Article

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