Title :
A color histogram based people tracking system
Author :
Lu, Wenmiao ; Tan, Yap-Peng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore
Abstract :
A system using color histogram based recognition technique is presented for tracking of moving people. The proposed system aims to resolve the identity of each tracked person after an occlusion, which is a common problem encountered in tracking of multiple objects. The system recognizes and keeps track of moving people with the aid of their color histograms. To make the recognition more robust against change of background illumination, a shadow-removal scheme is designed to select only those pixels belonging to the tracked people for constructing their color histograms. Experimental results of real video data are reported to show the efficacy of the proposed system
Keywords :
image colour analysis; image recognition; image sequences; object recognition; optical tracking; background illumination; color histogram; multiple objects; occlusion; people tracking system; real video data; recognition technique; shadow-removal scheme; Histograms; Image converters; Layout; Lighting; Man machine systems; Motion detection; Robustness; Shape; Surveillance; Tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6685-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921025
