Commentary Paper 1 on "A Localized Approach to Abandoned Luggage Detection with Foreground-Mask Sampling"

Author

Nicolescu, Mircea

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

fYear

2008

fDate

1-3 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

140

Lastpage

141

Abstract

The paper presents a method for the detection of abandoned luggage in video surveillance applications. The technique uses a foreground sampling method to localize abandoned luggage in the presence of cluttered scenes. A subsequent approach for person detection is proposed in order to detect the owners of the luggage, by using a combination of skin color detection and a generalized Hough transform for head-and-shoulders detection.

Keywords

Hough transforms; computer vision; image colour analysis; image sampling; object detection; security; skin; video signal processing; video surveillance; Hough transform; abandoned luggage detection; cluttered scenes; foreground-mask sampling; head-and-shoulders detection; person detection; security; skin color detection; video surveillance; vision-based solutions; Computer vision; Humans; Kernel; Machine learning; Motion estimation; Pattern recognition; Sampling methods; Skin; Tracking; Video surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2008. AVSS '08. IEEE Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3341-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3422-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AVSS.2008.49

Filename

4730401