Non-overlapping Distributed Tracking System Utilizing Particle Filter

  • Authors:
  • F. L. Lim;W. Leoputra;T. Tan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 6001;Department of Computer Science, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 6001;Department of Computer Science, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 6001

  • Venue:
  • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Tracking people across multiple cameras is a challenging research area in visual computing, especially when these cameras have non-overlapping field of views. The important task is to associate a current subject with other prior appearances of the same subject across time and space in a camera network. Several known techniques rely on Bayesian approaches to perform the matching task. However, these approaches do not scale well when the dimension of the problem increases; e.g. when the number of subject or possible path increases. The aim of this paper is to propose a unified tracking framework using particle filters to efficiently switch between visual tracking (field of view tracking) and track prediction (non-overlapping region tracking). The particle filter tracking system utilizes a map (known environment) to assist the tracking process when targets leave the field of view of any camera. We implemented and tested this tracking approach in an in-house multiple cameras system as well as using on-line data. Promising results were obtained which suggested the feasibility of such an approach.