Yihan Yang , Ming Xu , Jason F. Ralph , Yuchen Ling , Xiaonan Pan
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Abstract
Multi-view pedestrian tracking has frequently been used to cope with the challenges of occlusion and limited fields-of-view in single-view tracking. However, there are few end-to-end methods in this field. Many existing algorithms detect pedestrians in individual views, cluster projected detections in a top view and then track them. The others track pedestrians in individual views and then associate the projected tracklets in a top view. In this paper, an end-to-end framework is proposed for multi-view tracking, in which both multi-view and temporal aggregations of feature maps are applied. The multi-view aggregation projects the per-view feature maps to a top view, uses a transformer encoder to output encoded feature maps and then uses a CNN to calculate a pedestrian occupancy map. The temporal aggregation uses another CNN to estimate position offsets from the encoded feature maps in consecutive frames. Our experiments have demonstrated that this end-to-end framework outperforms the state-of-the-art online algorithms for multi-view pedestrian tracking.
期刊介绍:
The central focus of this journal is the computer analysis of pictorial information. Computer Vision and Image Understanding publishes papers covering all aspects of image analysis from the low-level, iconic processes of early vision to the high-level, symbolic processes of recognition and interpretation. A wide range of topics in the image understanding area is covered, including papers offering insights that differ from predominant views.
Research Areas Include:
• Theory
• Early vision
• Data structures and representations
• Shape
• Range
• Motion
• Matching and recognition
• Architecture and languages
• Vision systems