Robust People Detection and Tracking from an Overhead Time-of-Flight Camera

Alvaro Fernandez-Rincon, David Fuentes-Jimenez, Cristina Losada-Gutierrez, Marta Marron-Romera, Carlos A. Luna, Javier Macias-Guarasa, Manuel Mazo

2017

Abstract

In this paper we describe a system for robust detection of people in a scene, by using an overhead Time of Flight (ToF) camera. The proposal addresses the problem of robust detection of people, by three means: a carefully designed algorithm to select regions of interest as candidates to belong to people; the generation of a robust feature vector that efficiently model the human upper body; and a people classification stage, to allow robust discrimination of people and other objects in the scene. The proposal also includes a particle filter tracker to allow people identification and tracking. Two classifiers are evaluated, based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Support Vector Machines (SVM). The evaluation is carried out on a subset of a carefully designed dataset with a broad variety of conditions, providing results comparing the PCA and SVM approaches, and also the performance impact of the tracker, with satisfactory results.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fernandez-Rincon A., Fuentes-Jimenez D., Losada-Gutierrez C., Marron-Romera M., Luna C., Macias-Guarasa J. and Mazo M. (2017). Robust People Detection and Tracking from an Overhead Time-of-Flight Camera . In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-225-7, pages 556-564. DOI: 10.5220/0006169905560564

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp17,
author={Alvaro Fernandez-Rincon and David Fuentes-Jimenez and Cristina Losada-Gutierrez and Marta Marron-Romera and Carlos A. Luna and Javier Macias-Guarasa and Manuel Mazo},
title={Robust People Detection and Tracking from an Overhead Time-of-Flight Camera},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={556-564},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006169905560564},
isbn={978-989-758-225-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2017)
TI - Robust People Detection and Tracking from an Overhead Time-of-Flight Camera
SN - 978-989-758-225-7
AU - Fernandez-Rincon A.
AU - Fuentes-Jimenez D.
AU - Losada-Gutierrez C.
AU - Marron-Romera M.
AU - Luna C.
AU - Macias-Guarasa J.
AU - Mazo M.
PY - 2017
SP - 556
EP - 564
DO - 10.5220/0006169905560564