Alignment of velocity fields for video surveillance

  • Authors:
  • Jorge S. Marques;Miguel BarãO;JoãO M. Lemos

  • Affiliations:
  • ISR, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal;INESC-ID, Universidade de ívora, R. Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal;NESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, R. Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Velocity fields play an important role in surveillance since they describe typical motion behaviors of video objects (e.g., pedestrians) in the scene. This paper presents an algorithm for the alignment of velocity fields acquired by different cameras, at different time intervals, from different viewpoints. Velocity fields are aligned using a warping function which maps corresponding points and vectors in both fields. The warping parameters are estimated by minimizing a non-linear least squares energy. Experimental tests show that the proposed model is able to compensate significant misalignments, including translation, rotation and scaling.