Formulation, detection and application of occlusion states (Oc-7) in the context of multiple object tracking

  • Authors:
  • P. Guha;A. Mukerjee;V. K. Subramanian

  • Affiliations:
  • TCS Innovation Labs., New Delhi, India;Comput. Sc. & Eng., IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India;Electr. Eng., IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India

  • Venue:
  • AVSS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Occlusion is often thought of as a challenge for visual algorithms, specially tracking. Existing literature, however, has identified a number of occlusion categories in the context of tracking in ad hoc manner. We propose a systematic approach to formulate a set of occlusion cases by considering the spatial relations among object support(s) (projections on the image plane) with the detected foreground blob(s), to show that only 7 occlusion states are possible. We designate the resulting qualitative formalism as Oc-7, and show how these occlusion states can be detected and used effectively for the task of multi-object tracking under occlusion of various types. The object support is decomposed into overlapping patches which are tracked independently on the occurrence of occlusions. As a demonstration of the application of these occlusion states, we propose a reasoning scheme for selective tracker execution and object feature updates to track multiple objects in complex environments.