Detection and Tracking of Large Number of Targets in Wide Area Surveillance

In this paper, we tackle the problem of object detection and tracking in a new and challenging domain of wide area surveillance. This problem poses several challenges: large camera motion, strong parallax, large number of moving objects, small number of pixels on target, single channel data and low framerate of video. We propose a method that overcomes these challenges and evaluate it on CLIF dataset. We use median background modeling which requires few frames to obtain a workable model. We remove false detections due to parallax and registration errors using gradient information of the background image. In order to keep complexity of the tracking problem manageable, we divide the scene into grid cells, solve the tracking problem optimally within each cell using bipartite graph matching and then link tracks across cells. Besides tractability, grid cells allow us to define a set of local scene constraints such as road orientation and object context. We use these constraints as part of ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ECCV
• Keywords: Computer Vision, ECCV 2010, Grid Cells, Low Framerate, Tracking Problem