A Flow-Based Approach to Vehicle Detection and Background Mosaicking in Airborne Video - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A Flow-Based Approach to Vehicle Detection and Background Mosaicking in Airborne Video

Hulya Yalcin, Robert Collins, Martial Hebert, and Michael J. Black
Conference Paper, Video Proceedings in conjunction with CVPR '05, Vol. 2, pp. 1202, June, 2005

Abstract

In this work, we address the detection of vehicles in a video stream obtained from a moving airborne platform. We propose a Bayesian framework for estimating dense optical flow over time that explicitly estimates a persistent model of background appearance. The approach assumes that the scene can be described by background and occlusion layers, estimated within an Expectation-Maximization framework. The mathematical formulation of the paper is an extension of our previous work where motion and appearance models for foreground and background layers are estimated simultaneously in a Bayesian framework.

Complete 15-page paper may be found at:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/401e/2e83364ef60d78c33ae1a38e669ec4ae5e82.pdf

BibTeX

@conference{Yalcin-2005-9190,
author = {Hulya Yalcin and Robert Collins and Martial Hebert and Michael J. Black},
title = {A Flow-Based Approach to Vehicle Detection and Background Mosaicking in Airborne Video},
booktitle = {Video Proceedings in conjunction with CVPR '05},
year = {2005},
month = {June},
volume = {2},
pages = {1202},
keywords = {motion estimation, tracking, background estimation},
}