Overview

This unique text/reference provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of all aspects of video analysis of humans. Broad in coverage and accessible in style, the text presents original perspectives collected from preeminent researchers gathered from across the world. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art research, the book reviews the historical origins of the different existing methods, and predicts future trends and challenges. Features: with a Foreword by Professor Larry Davis; contains contributions from an international selection of leading authorities in the field; includes an extensive glossary; discusses the problems associated with detecting and tracking people through camera networks; examines topics related to determining the time-varying 3D pose of a person from video; investigates the representation and recognition of human and vehicular actions; reviews the most important applications of activity recognition, from biometrics and surveillance, to sports and driver assistance.

Full Product Details

Author:   Thomas B. Moeslund ,  Adrian Hilton ,  Volker Krüger ,  Leonid Sigal
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.991kg
ISBN:  

9781447159148

ISBN 10:   1447159144
Pages:   634
Publication Date:   30 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I: Detection and Tracking.- Is There Anybody Out There?- Beyond the Static Camera: Issues and Trends in Active Vision.- Figure-Ground Segmentation: Pixel-Based: Figure-Ground Segmentation: Object Based.- Face Detection.- Wide Area Tracking in Single and Multiple Views.- Benchmark Datasets for Detection and Tracking.- Part II: Pose Estimation.- Articulated Pose Estimation and Tracking: Introduction.- Model-based Pose Estimation.- Motion Models for People Tracking.- Part-based Models for Finding People and Estimating Their Pose.- Feature-based Pose Estimation.- Benchmark Datasets for Pose Estimation and Tracking.- Part III: Recognition.- On Human Action.- Motion Pattern Analysis for Modeling and Recognition of Complex Human Activities.- Action Recognition Using Topic Models.Learning Action Primitives.- Contextual Action Recognition.- Facial Expression Analysis.- Part IV: Applications.- Applications for Visual Analysis of People.- Image and Video-based Biometrics.- Security and Surveillance.- Predicting Pedestrian Trajectories.- Human Computer Interaction.- Social Signal Processing: The Research Agenda.- Sign Language Recognition.- Sports TV Applications of Computer Vision.- Multi-view 4D Reconstruction of Human Action for Entertainment.- Vision for Driver Assistance: Looking at People in a Vehicle.

Reviews

From the reviews: This book is a collection of 30 scientific papers organized in four parts. The topics that are reviewed in this book are mainly people and face detection, pose estimation, tracking and activity recognition. The book covers a broad domain making the book appealing to not only graduate students in the computer vision field, but also scholars and researchers. (Norberto Goussies, IAPR Newsletter, Vol. 35 (3), July, 2013)

From the reviews: This book is a collection of 30 scientific papers organized in four parts. The topics that are reviewed in this book are mainly people and face detection, pose estimation, tracking and activity recognition. The book covers a broad domain making the book appealing to not only graduate students in the computer vision field, but also scholars and researchers. (Norberto Goussies, IAPR Newsletter, Vol. 35 (3), July, 2013)

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