Real time vision based multi-person tracking for mobile robotics and intelligent vehicles

  • Authors:
  • Dennis Mitzel;Georgios Floros;Patrick Sudowe;Benito van der Zander;Bastian Leibe

  • Affiliations:
  • UMIC Research Centre, RWTH Aachen University, Germany;UMIC Research Centre, RWTH Aachen University, Germany;UMIC Research Centre, RWTH Aachen University, Germany;UMIC Research Centre, RWTH Aachen University, Germany;UMIC Research Centre, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICIRA'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a real-time vision-based multi-person tracking system working in crowded urban environments. Our approach combines stereo visual odometry estimation, HOG pedestrian detection, and multi-hypothesis tracking-by-detection to a robust tracking framework that runs on a single laptop with a CUDA-enabled graphics card. Through shifting the expensive computations to the GPU and making extensive use of scene geometry constraints we could build up a mobile system that runs with 10Hz. We experimentally demonstrate on several challenging sequences that our approach achieves competitive tracking performance.