{"title":"Real-Time 3-D Human Body Tracking using Variable Length Markov Models","authors":"Fabrice Caillette, Aphrodite Galata, T. Howard","doi":"10.5244/C.19.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5244/C.19.49","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce a 3-D human-body tracker capable of handling fast and complex motions in real-time. The parameter space, augmented with first order derivatives, is automatically partitioned into Gaussian clusters each representing an elementary motion: hypothesis propagation inside each cluster is therefore accurate and efficient. The transitions between clusters use the predictions of a Variable Length Markov Model which can explain highlevel behaviours over a long history. Using Monte-Carlo methods, evaluation of model candidates is critical for both speed and robustness. We present a new evaluation scheme based on volumetric reconstruction and blobs-fitting, where appearance models and image evidences are represented by Gaussian mixtures. We demonstrate the application of our tracker to long video sequences exhibiting rapid and diverse movements.","PeriodicalId":196845,"journal":{"name":"Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2005","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128859086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection and Tracking of Humans by Probabilistic Body Part Assembly","authors":"Antonio S. Micilotta, Eng-Jon Ong, R. Bowden","doi":"10.5244/C.19.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5244/C.19.44","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a probabilistic framework of assembling detected human body parts into a full 2D human configuration. The face, torso, legs and hands are detected in cluttered scenes using boosted body part detectors trained by AdaBoost. Body configurations are assembled from the detected parts using RANSAC, and a coarse heuristic is applied to eliminate obvious outliers. An a priori mixture model of upper-body configurations is used to provide a pose likelihood for each configuration. A joint-likelihood model is then determined by combining the pose, part detector and corresponding skin model likelihoods. The assembly with the highest likelihood is selected by RANSAC, and the elbow positions are inferred. This paper also illustrates the combination of skin colour likelihood and detection likelihood to further reduce false hand and face detections.","PeriodicalId":196845,"journal":{"name":"Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2005","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115229237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generalized 2D Fisher Discriminant Analysis","authors":"Hui Kong, Jian-Gang Wang, E. Teoh, C. Kambhamettu","doi":"10.5244/C.19.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5244/C.19.71","url":null,"abstract":"To solve the Small Sample Size (SSS) problem, the recent linear discriminant analysis using the 2D matrix-based data representation model has demonstrated its superiority over that using the conventional vector-based data representation model in face recognition [7]. But the explicit reason why the matrix-based model is better than vectorized model has not been given until now. In this paper, a framework of Generalized 2D Fisher Discriminant Analysis (G2DFDA) is proposed. Three contributions are included in this framework: 1) the essence of these ’2D’ methods is analyzed and their relationships with conventional ’1D’ methods are given, 2) a Bilateral and 3) a Kernel-based 2D Fisher Discriminant Analysis methods are proposed. Extensive experiment results show its excellent performance.","PeriodicalId":196845,"journal":{"name":"Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2005","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122102896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hui Kong, Xuchun Li, Jian-Gang Wang, E. Teoh, C. Kambhamettu
{"title":"Discriminant Low-dimensional Subspace Analysis for Face Recognition with Small Number of Training Samples","authors":"Hui Kong, Xuchun Li, Jian-Gang Wang, E. Teoh, C. Kambhamettu","doi":"10.5244/C.19.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5244/C.19.70","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a framework of Discriminant Low-dimensional Subspace Analysis (DLSA) method is proposed to deal with the Small Sample Size (SSS) problem in face recognition area. Firstly, it is rigorously proven that the null space of the total covariance matrix, S t , is useless for recognition. Therefore, a framework of Fisher discriminant analysis in a low-dimensional space is developed by projecting all the samples onto the range space of S t . Two algorithms are proposed in this framework, i.e., Unified Linear Discriminant Analysis (ULDA) and Modified Linear Discriminant Analysis (MLDA). The ULDA extracts discriminant information from three subspaces of this lowdimensional space. The MLDA adopts a modified Fisher criterion which can avoid the singularity problem in conventional LDA. Experimental results on a large combined database have demonstrated that the proposed ULDA and MLDA can both achieve better performance than the other state-of-the-art LDA-based algorithms in recognition accuracy.","PeriodicalId":196845,"journal":{"name":"Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2005","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127509976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incremental Learning of Temporally-Coherent Gaussian Mixture Models","authors":"Ognjen Arandjelovic, R. Cipolla","doi":"10.5244/C.19.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5244/C.19.59","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we address the problem of learning Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) incrementally. Unlike previous approaches which universally assume that new data comes in blocks representable by GMMs which are then merged with the current model estimate, our method works for the case when novel data points arrive oneby- one, while requiring little additional memory. We keep only two GMMs in the memory and no historical data. The current fit is updated with the assumption that the number of components is fixed, which is increased (or reduced) when enough evidence for a new component is seen. This is deduced from the change from the oldest fit of the same complexity, termed the Historical GMM, the concept of which is central to our method. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated qualitatively and quantitatively on several synthetic data sets and video sequences of faces acquired in realistic imaging conditions","PeriodicalId":196845,"journal":{"name":"Procedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2005","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117059577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}