Tracking mean shift clustered point clouds for 3D surveillance

  • Authors:
  • Mark A. Keck, Jr.;James W. Davis;Ambrish Tyagi

  • Affiliations:
  • Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Video surveillance and sensor networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present in this paper a method of tracking multiple objects (people) in 3D for application in video surveillance. The tracking method is designed to work on images with objects at low resolution and has two major contributions. First we propose a way to generate 3D point clouds that imposes multiple constraints (both geometric and appearance-based) to ensure minimal noise in the 3D data. Second, we incorporate a method to group the points into clouds (or clusters) that correspond to objects in the environment being imaged. We show that this method is more powerful than current 3D tracking techniques that try to fuse 2D tracking information into 3D tracks. A comparison to competing 3D tracking methods are shown, and performance and limitations are discussed.