Extracting Pathlets FromWeak Tracking Data

  • Authors:
  • Kevin Streib;James W. Davis

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AVSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a novel framework for extracting “pathlets”from tracking data. A pathlet is defined as a motion regionthat contains tracks having the same origin and destinationin the scene and that are temporally correlated. The proposedmethod requires only weak tracking data (multiplefragmented tracks per target). We employ a probabilisticstate space representation to construct a Markovian transitionmodel and estimate the scene entry/exit locations. Theresulting model is treated as a set of vertices in a graph anda similarity matrix is built which describes broader nonlocalrelationships between states. A Spectral Clusteringapproach is then used to automatically extract the pathletsof the scene. We present experimental results from scenes ofvarying difficulty and compare against other approaches.