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Association; Correspondence; Localization; Pedestrian detection; Target detection; Video surveillance
Definition
Human detection and tracking are tasks of computer vision systems for locating and following people in video imagery. Human detection is the task of locating all instances of human beings present in an image, and it has been most widely accomplished by searching all locations in the image, at all possible scales, and comparing a small area at each location with known templates or patterns of people. Human tracking is the process of temporally associating the human detections within a video sequence to generate persistent paths, or trajectories, of the people. Human detection and tracking are generally considered the first two processes in a video surveillance pipeline and can feed into higher-level reasoning modules such as action recognition and dynamic scene analysis.
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In relation to large-scale biometric and video surveillance systems, there is an...
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Davis, J.W., Sharma, V., Tyagi, A., Keck, M. (2015). Human Detection and Tracking. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7488-4_35
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