Scene geometry from moving objects

Eitan Richardson; Shmuel Peleg; Michael Werman

doi:10.1109/AVSS.2014.6918637

Scene geometry from moving objects

Eitan Richardson^*, Shmuel Peleg, Michael Werman

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The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

It has been observed that in most videos recorded by surveillance cameras the image size of an object is a linear function of the y coordinate of its image location. This simple linear relationship holds in the most common surveillance camera configurations, where objects move on a planar surface and the camera's X axis is parallel to that plane. This linear relationship enables us to easily perform and enhance several geometric tasks based on tracking an object over a few frames: (i) computing the horizon; (ii) computing the relative real world sizes of objects in the scene based on their image appearance; (iii) improving tracking by constraining an object's location and size. When the the camera's X axis is not parallel to the ground plane, after tracking a couple of objects it is possible to find the rotation which rectifies the video so that its new X axis is parallel to the ground plane.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2014
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	13-18
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479948710
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/AVSS.2014.6918637
State	Published - 8 Oct 2014
Event	11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2014 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 26 Aug 2014 → 29 Aug 2014

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Name	11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2014

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Conference	11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2014
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	26/08/14 → 29/08/14

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Richardson, E., Peleg, S., & Werman, M. (2014). Scene geometry from moving objects. In 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2014 (pp. 13-18). Article 6918637 (11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2014). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/AVSS.2014.6918637

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Richardson E, Peleg S, Werman M. Scene geometry from moving objects. In 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2014. p. 13-18. 6918637. (11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, AVSS 2014). doi: 10.1109/AVSS.2014.6918637

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