SS 2012 - Computer Vision: Object and People Tracking
Room and Time
Lecture: 48/462, Monday, 10:00-11:30
Exercise: DFKI, room 2.04 (second floor), 14:00-15:30 ( dates see below), bring your laptops
Exam: Oral exam
Contacts
Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker
Dr. Gabriele Bleser: Gabriele.Bleser(at)dfki.de
Topics:
- Camera model and image formation
- Template tracking and feature descriptors
- Background modelling and subtraction
- Model-based tracking (CAD models, edge-features)
- Object detection
- Recursive Bayesian tracking
- (Extended) Kalman filters
- Motion and measurement models for visual tracking
- Applications
Slides
The slides will be continuously added here:
- 16.04.2012: Introduction
- 23.04.2012: Edge and corner detection
- 30.04.2012: Corner and blob detection, feature descriptors
- 07.05.2012: Templates and Background Subtraction
- 14.05.2012: Feature Tracking and Optical Flow
- 21.05.2012: Model-based 3D tracking
- 04.06.2012: Model-based 3D tracking, Introduction/motivation Bayesian tracking (see exercise sheet below)
- 11.06.2012: Introduction to Baysian tracking, Bayes filter
- 18.06.2012: Kalman filter (see exercise sheet below)
- 25.06.2012: Extended Kalman Filter
- 02.07.2012: State-space models and applications (see exercise sheet below)
- 10.07.2012: People tracking in RGB-D data
- 16.07.2012: State-space models and applications cont'd (visual-inertial tracking)
- Organisational, announcements
Exercises
Readings are given within the lectures. Three home assignments (in Matlab/Octave) will appear here:
Exercise/tutorial sessions are scheduled for 14.06.2012, 28.06.2012, 16.07.2012 (last lecture) (see above for room and time).
Bibliography (textbooks)
- David A. Forsyth and Jean Ponce, Computer Vision: A Modern Approach
- Richard Hartley and Andrew Zisserman, Multiple View Geometry in Computer Vision
- Y. Ma, S. Soatto, J. Kosecka, S. Sastry, An invitation to 3D Vision, 2003
- Giorgio Panin, Model-based visual tracking, ed. Wiley-Blackwell
- Sebastian Thrun, Probabilistic Robotics (http://www.probabilistic-robotics.org/)
- Y. Bar-Shalom, Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation: Theory Algorthims and Software: Theory Algorithms and Software