ROBUST OCCLUSION HANDLING WITH MULTIPLE CAMERAS USING A HOMOGRAPHY CONSTRAINT

Anastasios L. Kesidis, Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos

2009

Abstract

The problem of human detection in crowded scenes where people may occlude each other has been tackled recently using the planar homography constraint in a multiple view framework. The foreground objects detected in each view are projected on a common plane in an accumulated fashion and then the maxima of this accumulation are matched to the moving targets. However the superposition of foreground objects projections on a common plane may create artifacts which can seriously disorientate a human detector by creating false positives. In this work we present a method which eliminates those artifacts by using only geometrical information thus contributing to robust human detection for multiple views. The presented experimental results validate the proposed approach.

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L. Kesidis A. and I. Kosmopoulos D. (2009). ROBUST OCCLUSION HANDLING WITH MULTIPLE CAMERAS USING A HOMOGRAPHY CONSTRAINT . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-69-2, pages 560-565. DOI: 10.5220/0001804605600565


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp09,
author={Anastasios L. Kesidis and Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos},
title={ROBUST OCCLUSION HANDLING WITH MULTIPLE CAMERAS USING A HOMOGRAPHY CONSTRAINT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={560-565},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001804605600565},
isbn={978-989-8111-69-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 2: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - ROBUST OCCLUSION HANDLING WITH MULTIPLE CAMERAS USING A HOMOGRAPHY CONSTRAINT
SN - 978-989-8111-69-2
AU - L. Kesidis A.
AU - I. Kosmopoulos D.
PY - 2009
SP - 560
EP - 565
DO - 10.5220/0001804605600565