Detection and Tracking of Moving Vehicles in Crowded Scenes

  • Authors:
  • Xuefeng Song;Ram Nevatia

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles;University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  • Venue:
  • WMVC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Vehicle inter-occlusion is a significant problem for multiplevehicle tracking even with a static camera. The difficulty is that the one-to-one correspondence between foreground blobs and vehicles does not hold when multiple vehicle blobs are merged in the scene. Making use of camera and vehicle model constraints, we propose a MCMCbased method to segment multiple merged vehicles into individual vehicles with their respective orientation. Then a Viterbi algorithm is applied to search through the sequence for the optimal tracks. Our method automatically detects and tracks multiple vehicles with orientation changes and prevalent occlusion, without requiring a special region to initialize each vehicle individually. Tests are performed on video sequences from busy street intersections and show very promising results.