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Project: The Reading People Tracker

Researchers: Siebel N.

The Reading People Tracker is a software for tracking people in camera images for visual surveillance purposes. It originates from research work on people tracking for automatic visual surveillance systems for crime detection and prevention. It was built within the context of two PhD theses (by AM Baumberg and NT Siebel) and contains state-of-the art image processing algorithms. It is easily maintainable and well documented. Therefore it can (and has already been) easily be adapted to new requirements and different projects. The Reading People Tracker contains the necessary functionality to read video sequences from hard disk or a video camera (IEEE1394/DV), to manipulate the images with image filters and to analyse them with a number of detection and tracking modules. More information, source code and documentation can be found on The Reading People Tracker's home page.

Publications:

2004 The ADVISOR visual surveillance system
Siebel N., Maybank S.
In Markus Clabian, Vladimir Smutny and Gerd Stanke, editors, Proceedings of the ECCV 2004 workshop "Applications of Computer Visi on" (ACV'04), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 103-111, May 2004, ISBN 80-01-02977-8.
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2003 Design and Implementation of People Tracking Algorithms for Visual Surveillance Applications
Siebel N.
PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, Reading, UK, March 2003.
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2002 The Reading People Tracker Version 1.12: Reference Manual
Le Bouffant T., Siebel N., Cook S., Maybank S.
Technical Report RUCS/2002/TR/11/001/A, Computational Vision Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Reading, Novem ber 2002
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2002 Fusion of Multiple Tracking Algorithms for Robust People Tracking
Siebel N., Maybank S.
In Anders Heyden, Gunnar Sparr, Mads Nielsen and Peter Johansen, editors, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2002), København, Denmark, Vol. IV, pp. 373-387. Springer-Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-540-43748-7
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2001 Real-Time Tracking of Pedestrians and Vehicles
Siebel N., Maybank S.
In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS 2001), Kauai, USA, 8 pages (no page numbers), 2001.
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