Audio-visual Person Tracking: A Practical Approach (Hardcover)

This book deals with the creation of the algorithmic backbone that enables a computer to perceive humans in a monitored space. This is performed using the same signals that humans process, i.e., audio and video. Computers reproduce the same type of perception using sensors and algorithms in order to detect and track multiple interacting humans, by way of multiple cues, like bodies, faces or speech. This application domain is challenging, because audio and visual signals are cluttered by both background and foreground objects. First, particle filtering is established as the framework for tracking. Then, audio, visual and also audio-visual tracking systems are separately explained. Each modality is analyzed, starting with sensor configuration, detection for tracker initialization and the trackers themselves. Techniques to fuse the modalities are then considered. Instead of offering a monolithic approach to the tracking problem, this book also focuses on implementation by providing MATLAB code for every presented component. This way, the reader can connect every concept with corresponding code. Finally, the applications of the various tracking systems in different domains are studied.

General

Imprint:	Imperial College Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Communications and Signal Processing, 4
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	November 2011
Authors:	Fotios Talantzis • Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis • Anthony G. Constantinides
Dimensions:	176 x 234 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	236
ISBN-13:	978-1-84816-581-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > Acupuncture Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > Traditional medicine & remedies > Chinese medicine Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
LSN:	1-84816-581-1
Barcode:	9781848165816

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