Counting crowded moving objects

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In its full generality, motion analysis of crowded objects necessitates recognition and segmentation of each moving entity. The difficulty of these tasks increases considerably with occlusions and therefore with crowding. When the objects are constrained to be of the same kind, however, partitioning of densely crowded semi-rigid objects can be accomplished by means of clustering tracked feature points. We base our approach on a highly parallelized version of the KLT tracker in order to process the video into a set of feature trajectories. While such a set of trajectories provides a substrate for motion analysis, their unequal lengths and fragmented nature present difficulties for subsequent processing. To address this, we propose a simple means of spatially and temporally conditioning the trajectories. Given this representation, we integrate it with a learned object descriptor to achieve a segmentation of the constituent motions. We present experimental results for the problem of estimating the number of moving objects in a dense crowd as a function of time.

Original languageEnglish
JournalProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Pages (from-to)705-711
Number of pages7
ISSN1063-6919
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2006 - New York, NY, United States
Duration: 17 Jun 200622 Jun 2006

Conference

Conference2006 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2006
CountryUnited States
CityNew York, NY
Period17/06/200622/06/2006

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