Multiple object tracking using k-shortest paths optimization

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1806-1819

  Berclaz, Jerome ^a   Fleuret, Francois ^b   Türetken, Engin ^a   Fua, Pascal ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data association; K shortest paths; linear programming.; multiobject tracking

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; CONSTRAINED FLOW; CONVEX PROBLEMS; DATA ASSOCIATION; DETECTING OBJECTS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; GREEDY SEARCH; K SHORTEST PATH; MULTI-OBJECT TRACKING; MULTIPLE OBJECT TRACKING; MULTIPLE TARGETS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; GRAPH THEORY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 80054897941     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.21     Document Type: Article

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