Pedestrian tracking in the compressed domain using thermal images

Ichraf Lahouli, Robby Haelterman, Zied Chtourou, Geert De Cubber, Rabah Attia

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Abstract

The video surveillance of sensitive facilities or borders poses many challenges like the high bandwidth requirements and the high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a framework for detecting and tracking pedestrians in the compressed domain using thermal images. Firstly, the detection process uses a conjunction between saliency maps and contrast enhancement techniques followed by a global image content descriptor based on Discrete Chebychev Moments (DCM) and a linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a classifier. Secondly, the tracking process exploits raw H.264 compressed video streams with limited computational overhead. In addition to two, well-known, public datasets, we have generated our own dataset by carrying six different scenarios of suspicious events using a thermal camera. The obtained results show the effectiveness and the low computational requirements of the proposed framework which make it suitable for real-time applications and onboard implementation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRepresentations, Analysis and Recognition of Shape and Motion from Imaging Data - 7th International Workshop, RFMI 2017, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsLiming Chen, Faouzi Ghorbel, Boulbaba Ben Amor
PublisherSpringer
Pages35-44
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030198152
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event7th International Workshop on Representations, Analysis and Recognition of Shape and Motion from Imaging Data, RFMI 2017 - Savoie, France
Duration: 17 Dec 201720 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume842
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference7th International Workshop on Representations, Analysis and Recognition of Shape and Motion from Imaging Data, RFMI 2017
Country/TerritoryFrance
CitySavoie
Period17/12/1720/12/17

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