학술논문

Self-Supervised Multi-View Person Association and its Applications
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 43(8):2794-2808 Aug, 2021
Subject
Computing and Processing
Bioengineering
Cameras
Three-dimensional displays
Skeleton
Target tracking
Streaming media
Reliability
Descriptor adaptation
self-supervised
people association
motion tracking
multi-angle video
Language
ISSN
0162-8828
2160-9292
1939-3539
Abstract
Reliable markerless motion tracking of people participating in a complex group activity from multiple moving cameras is challenging due to frequent occlusions, strong viewpoint and appearance variations, and asynchronous video streams. To solve this problem, reliable association of the same person across distant viewpoints and temporal instances is essential. We present a self-supervised framework to adapt a generic person appearance descriptor to the unlabeled videos by exploiting motion tracking, mutual exclusion constraints, and multi-view geometry. The adapted discriminative descriptor is used in a tracking-by-clustering formulation. We validate the effectiveness of our descriptor learning on WILDTRACK T. Chavdarova et al. , “WILDTRACK: A multi-camera HD dataset for dense unscripted pedestrian detection,” in Proc. IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recognit., 2018, pp. 5030–5039. and three new complex social scenes captured by multiple cameras with up to 60 people “in the wild”. We report significant improvement in association accuracy (up to 18 percent) and stable and coherent 3D human skeleton tracking (5 to 10 times) over the baseline. Using the reconstructed 3D skeletons, we cut the input videos into a multi-angle video where the image of a specified person is shown from the best visible front-facing camera. Our algorithm detects inter-human occlusion to determine the camera switching moment while still maintaining the flow of the action well. Website : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ILIM/projects/IM/Association4Tracking.