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Audio Visual Person Tracking A Practical Approach

Talantzis, Fotios; Pnevmatikakis, Aristodemos; Constantinides, Anthony G.
ISBN-10: 1848165811
ISBN-13: 9781848165816

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This title deals with the creation of the algorithm backbone that enables a computer to perceive humans in a monitored space, by processing the signals that humans use in order to perform a task.
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
Person tracking
Why person tracking?
Person tracking challenges
Book organisation
Tracking Algorithms
Introduction
Tracking
Deterministic tracking
Stochastic trackers
Recursive Bayesian filtering
Kalman filter
Particle filter
Particle filter trackers
Object models
Object model for proposal distribution
Degeneracy of SIS particle filter
Optimum proposal distributions
Resampling
Sequential Importance Resampling particle filter
Conclusions
Audio Tracking
Introduction
Multiple audio sensors
System model
The image model
Microphone arrays and then geometries
Audio trackers
Linear intersection
Particle filtering
Multiple speakers
Detection in audio
Time delay estimation
Beamforming
Voice activity detection
System parameters
Performance measures
Simulations
Visual Tracking
Introduction
From 3D world to 2D images
3D imaging
Measurements in images
Colour matching
Colour without spatial information
Colour with spatial information
Outline matching
Clutter attenuation by edge orientation
View changes handling by modelling in 3D
Moving objects
Frame-by-frame difference
Adaptive background estimation
Motion likelihood
Face detection
Viola-Jones face detector
Face validation
Face likelihood
Visual tracking systems
Deterministic tracking
Template matching
Mean-Shift
Stochastic tracking
Kalman filter
Colour-based particle filter face tracker
Measurement-assisted proposal distribution
Particle filter face tracker with colour-assisted proposal distribution
Particle filter face tracker using face likelihood
Conclusions
Multimodal Tracking
Introduction
Likelihood combination
Multiplying face and colour likelihoods
Tracker output combination
Deterministic fusion of independent trackers
Kalman fusion of independent audio and visual trackers
Partitioned sampling
Joint multi-cue face tracker employing partitioned sampling
Joint audio and visual tracker employing partitioned sampling
Sensor synchronisation
Conclusions
Applications
Smart Spaces
The Smart Home
The Smart Office
Video-conferencing
Entertainment
Personalised media broadcasting
Security and surveillance
Robotics
Marketing and retail
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index




List price: $85.00
Edition: 2011
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Binding: Trade Cloth
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.23 lbs.
Language: English

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