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Pfinder: real-time tracking of the human body

Year: 1997

Type: article

Abstract: Pfinder is a real-time system for tracking people and interpreting their behavior. It runs at 10 Hz on a standard SGI Indy computer, and has performed reliably on thousands of people in many different physical locations. The system uses a multiclass statistical model of color and shape to obtain a 2D representation of head and hands in a wide range of viewing conditions. Pfinder has been successfully used in a wide range of applications including wireless interfaces, video databases, and low-bandwidth coding.

Source: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

DOI: 10.1109/34.598236

Authors: C.R. Wren, A. Azarbayejani, T. Darrell, A.P. Pentland

Institutions: MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods

Subfield: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2140235142

FWCI: 60.83

Cites: 15

Cited by: 4,197

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