Multiple pedestrian tracking from monocular videos in an interacting multiple model framework

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Journal Article
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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2018, 27 (3), pp. 1361 - 1375
Issue Date:
2018-03-01
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© 2017 IEEE. We present a multiple pedestrian tracking method for monocular videos captured by a fixed camera in an interacting multiple model (IMM) framework. Our tracking method involves multiple IMM trackers running in parallel, which are tied together by a robust data association component. We investigate two data association strategies which take into account both the target appearance and motion errors. We use a 4D color histogram as the appearance model for each pedestrian returned by a people detector that is based on the histogram of oriented gradients features. Short-term occlusion problems and false negative errors from the detector are dealt with using a sliding window of video frames, where tracking persists in the absence of observations. Our method has been evaluated, and compared both qualitatively and quantitatively with four state-of-the-art visual tracking methods using benchmark video databases. The experiments demonstrate that, on average, our tracking method outperforms these four methods.
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