Robust Object Tracking by Hierarchical Association of Detection Responses

  • Authors:

  • Chang Huang;Bo Wu;Ramakant Nevatia

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA CA 90089-0273;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA CA 90089-0273;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA CA 90089-0273

  • Venue:
  • ECCV '08 Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Computer Vision: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a detection-based three-level hierarchical association approach to robustly track multiple objects in crowded environments from a single camera. At the low level, reliable tracklets (i.e. short tracks for further analysis) are generated by linking detection responses based on conservative affinity constraints. At the middle level, these tracklets are further associated to form longer tracklets based on more complex affinity measures. The association is formulated as a MAP problem and solved by the Hungarian algorithm. At the high level, entries, exits and scene occluders are estimated using the already computed tracklets, which are used to refine the final trajectories. This approach is applied to the pedestrian class and evaluated on two challenging datasets. The experimental results show a great improvement in performance compared to previous methods.