• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.51-59
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• 2012

최근 보안 감시 분야에서 영상처리를 이용한 객체 추적에 관한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 기존 여러 대의 카메라를 이용한 보안 감시 시스템은 각각 독립적으로 운영되었다. 따라서 추적 객체가 다른 카메라의 감시영역으로 이동 시 계속해서 추적이 어려웠다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문은 다중 카메라에서 객체의 이동방향에 따라 자동으로 카메라의 제어권을 변경하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안방법은 객체를 검출하고 객체의 색상 정보와 방향 정보로 객체를 추적한다. 색상 정보는 hue를 이용하고 방향 정보는 광류를 이용하여 획득한다. 이때 광류는 전체 영상이 아닌 객체가 검출된 영역에만 적용하여 계산량을 줄여 실시간 추적이 가능하게 한다. 또한, 자동으로 객체를 추적함으로써 기존 카메라를 이용한 보안 감시 시스템의 불편함을 해결할 수 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.1299-1319
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• 2017

This paper presents a scalable multiple camera collaboration strategy for active tracking applications in large areas. The proposed approach is based on distributed mechanism but emulates the master-slave mechanism. The master and slave cameras are not designated but adaptively determined depending on the object dynamic and density distribution. Moreover, the number of cameras emulating the master is not fixed. The collaboration among the cameras utilizes global and local sectors in which the visual correspondences among different cameras are determined. The proposed method combines the local information to construct the global information for emulating the master-slave operations. Based on the global information, the load balancing of active tracking operations is performed to maximize active tracking coverage of the highly dynamic objects. The dynamics of all objects visible in the local camera views are estimated for effective coverage scheduling of the cameras. The active tracking synchronization timing information is chosen to maximize the overall monitoring time for general surveillance operations while minimizing the active tracking miss. The real-time simulation result demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.136-141
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• 2009

This paper proposed a framework for handover method in continuously tracking a person of interest across cooperative pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. The algorithm here is based on a robust non-parametric technique for climbing density gradients to find the peak of probability distributions called the mean shift algorithm. Most tracking algorithms use only one cue (such as color). The color features are not always discriminative enough for target localization because illumination or viewpoints tend to change. Moreover the background may be of a color similar to that of the target. In our proposed system, the continuous person tracking across cooperative PTZ cameras by mean shift tracking that using color and shape histogram to be feature distributions. Color and shape distributions of interested person are used to register the target person across cameras. For the first camera, we select interested person for tracking using skin color, cloth color and boundary of body. To handover tracking process between two cameras, the second camera receives color and shape cues of a target person from the first camera and using linear color calibration to help with handover process. Our experimental results demonstrate color and shape feature in mean shift algorithm is capable for continuously and accurately track the target person across cameras.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.241-253
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• 2006

현대사회는 광범위한 지역에 산재된 다수의 카메라로부터 사람을 자동적으로 식별하고 추적할 수 있는 감시시스템을 요구하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 넓은 시야의 확보가 용이한 고정된 다수의 비겹침 감시카메라와 사람 추적기술을 결합하여, 한 카메라에서 추적된 사람의 정보를 서버를 통해 다른 카메라에 전달하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 추적대상을 자동적으로 추적하고 서버에 전달함으로써, 한번 추적된 추적대상의 움직임 경로 및 추적 상태를 끝까지 추적할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 추적대상을 식별하고 전달하기 위해 사람모델을 이용하였다. 서버를 통해 연결된 각 카메라들의 관계와 카메라 상에서 움직이는 사람의 이동은 FOV 라인에 의해 제약되어 추적대상의 정보전달에 이용되었다. 추적대상은 추적되는 동안 6 단계의 상태정보를 가진다. 제안된 시스템은 다양한 실내 동영상에 대해 실험되었으며, 91.2% 의 평균추적율과 96% 의 평균 상태율을 획득하였다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2006

We propose an global color model based method for tracking motions of multiple human using a networked multiple-camera system in intelligent space as a human-robot coexistent system. An intelligent space is a space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors(color CCD cameras for example), are distributed. Human beings can be a part of intelligent space as well. One of the main goals of intelligent space is to assist humans and to do different services for them. In order to be capable of doing that, intelligent space must be able to do different human related tasks. One of them is to identify and track multiple objects seamlessly. In the environment where many camera modules are distributed on network, it is important to identify object in order to track it, because different cameras may be needed as object moves throughout the space and intelligent space should determine the appropriate one. This paper describes appearance based unknown object tracking with the distributed vision system in intelligent space. First, we discuss how object color information is obtained and how the color appearance based model is constructed from this data. Then, we discuss the global color model based on the local color information. The process of learning within global model and the experimental results are also presented.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.2075-2092
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• 2017

Person re-identification is to match pedestrians observed from non-overlapping camera views. It has important applications in video surveillance such as person retrieval, person tracking, and activity analysis. However, it is a very challenging problem due to illumination, pose and viewpoint variations between non-overlapping camera views. In this work, we propose a viewpoint invariant method for matching pedestrian images using orientation of pedestrian. First, the proposed method divides a pedestrian image into patches and assigns angle to a patch using the orientation of the pedestrian under the assumption that a person body has the cylindrical shape. The difference between angles are then used to compute the similarity between patches. We applied the proposed method to real-time global multi-object tracking across multiple disjoint cameras with non-overlapping field of views. Re-identification algorithm makes global trajectories by connecting local trajectories obtained by different local trackers. The effectiveness of the viewpoint invariant method for person re-identification was validated on the VIPeR dataset. In addition, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach for the inter-camera multiple object tracking on the MCT dataset with ground truth data for local tracking.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.488-498
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• 2007

본 논문은 유비쿼터스 스마트 공간에서 중첩 FOV와 비중첩 FOV에 대한 카메라 네트워크의 시공간 위상을 표현하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 이용하여 다중 카메라들간의 움직이는 객체들을 인식 및 추적하였으며 이를 통해 카메라 네트워크의 위상을 결정하였다. 다중 카메라의 영상으로부터 여러 객체들을 추적하기 위해 여러 가지 방법들을 사용하였다. 우선, 단일 카메라에서 객체들의 겹침 문제를 해결하기 위해서 병합-분리(Merge-Split) 방법을 사용하였으며, 보다 정확한 객체 특성을 추출하기 위해 그리드 기반의 부분 추출 방법을 사용하였다. 또한, 비중첩 FOV를 포함하는 다중 카메라의 보이지 않는 지역에 대한 객체 추적을 위해 등장과 퇴장 영역간의 전이시간과 사람들의 외형 정보를 고려하였다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 등장과 퇴장 영역간의 전이시간을 추정하고 전이확률을 이용하여 무방향 가중치 그래프로써 카메라 위상을 가시적으로 표현하였다.

• 한국BIM학회 논문집
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2017

Continuous research efforts have been made on acquiring location data on construction sites. As a result, GPS and RFID are increasingly employed on the site to track the location of equipment and materials. However, these systems are based on radio frequency technologies which require attaching tags on every target entity. Implementing the systems incurs time and costs for attaching/detaching/managing the tags or sensors. For this reason, efforts are currently being made to track construction entities using only cameras. Vision-based 3D tracking has been presented in a previous research work in which the location of construction manpower, vehicle, and materials were successfully tracked. However, the proposed system is still in its infancy and yet to be implemented on practical applications for two reasons. First, it does not involve entity matching across two views, and thus cannot be used for tracking multiple entities, simultaneously. Second, the use of a checker board in the camera calibration process entails a focus-related problem when the baseline is long and the target entities are located far from the cameras. This paper proposes a vision-based method to track multiple workers simultaneously. An entity matching procedure is added to acquire the matching pairs of the same entities across two views which is necessary for tracking multiple entities. Also, the proposed method simplified the calibration process by avoiding the use of a checkerboard, making it more adequate to the realistic deployment on construction sites.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.2217-2229
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• 2015

Since the variations of illumination, the irregular changes of human shapes, and the partial occlusions, multiple person tracking is a challenging work in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a graph clustering method based on spatio-temporal information of moving objects for multiple person tracking. First, the part-based model is utilized to localize individual foreground regions in each frame. Then, we heuristically leverage the spatio-temporal constraints to generate a set of reliable tracklets. Finally, the graph shift method is applied to handle tracklet association problem and consequently generate the completed trajectory for individual object. The extensive comparison experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.344-358
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• 2019

Surveillance cameras have installed in many places because security and safety is becoming important in modern society. Through surveillance cameras installed, we can deal with troubles and prevent accidents. However, watching surveillance videos and judging the accidental situations is very labor-intensive. So now, the need for research to analyze surveillance videos is growing. This study proposes an algorithm to track multiple persons using SURF and background subtraction. While the SURF algorithm, as a person-tracking algorithm, is robust to scaling, rotating and different viewpoints, SURF makes tracking errors with sudden changes in videos. To resolve such tracking errors, we combined SURF with a background subtraction algorithm and showed that the proposed approach increased the tracking accuracy. In addition, the background subtraction algorithm can detect persons in videos, and SURF can initialize tracking targets with these detected persons, and thus the proposed algorithm can automatically detect the enter/exit of persons.