Viewpoint Invariant Person Re-Identification for Global Multi-Object Tracking with Non-Overlapping Cameras

• Jeonghwan Gwak,
• Geunpyo Park,
• Moongu Jeon,

Vol. 11, No. 4, April 29, 2017
10.3837/tiis.2017.04.014, Download Paper (Free):

• Viewpoint invariance
• Person re-identification
• global multi-object tracking
• Non-overlapping Cameras

Abstract

Person re-identification is to match pedestrians observed from non-overlapping camera views. It has important applications in video surveillance such as person retrieval, person tracking, and activity analysis. However, it is a very challenging problem due to illumination, pose and viewpoint variations between non-overlapping camera views. In this work, we propose a viewpoint invariant method for matching pedestrian images using orientation of pedestrian. First, the proposed method divides a pedestrian image into patches and assigns angle to a patch using the orientation of the pedestrian under the assumption that a person body has the cylindrical shape. The difference between angles are then used to compute the similarity between patches. We applied the proposed method to real-time global multi-object tracking across multiple disjoint cameras with non-overlapping field of views. Re-identification algorithm makes global trajectories by connecting local trajectories obtained by different local trackers. The effectiveness of the viewpoint invariant method for person re-identification was validated on the VIPeR dataset. In addition, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach for the inter-camera multiple object tracking on the MCT dataset with ground truth data for local tracking.

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