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Carried object detection in videos using color information
journal contribution
posted on 2013-12-04, 12:17 authored by Giounona Tzanidou, Iffat Zafar, Eran EdirisingheAutomatic baggage detection has become a subject
of significant practical interest in recent years. In this paper, we
propose an approach to baggage detection in CCTV video footage
that uses color information to address some of the vital shortcomings
of state-of-the-art algorithms. The proposed approach consists
of typical steps used in baggage detection, namely, the estimation
of moving direction of humans carrying baggage, construction
of human-like temporal templates, and their alignment with
the best matched view-specific exemplars. In addition, we utilize
the color information to define the region that most likely belongs
to a human torso in order to reduce the false positive detections.
A key novel contribution is the person’s viewing direction estimation
using machine learning and shoulder shape related features.
Further enhancement of baggage detection and segmentation is
achieved by exploiting the CIELAB color space properties. The
proposed system has been extensively tested for its effectiveness,
at each stage of improvement, on PETS 2006 dataset and additional
CCTVvideo footage captured to cover specific test scenarios.
The experimental results suggest that the proposed algorithm is capable
of superseding the functional performance of state-of-the-art
baggage detection algorithms.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Computer Science
Citation
TZANIDOU, G., ZAFAR, I. and EDIRISINGHE, E.A., 2013. Carried object detection in videos using color information. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 8 (10), pp. 1620 - 1631.Publisher
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2013Notes
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1556-6013Publisher version
Language
- en