Agt International Gmbh

Ag International Gmbh

Korro Ai Limited

Markus Schlattmann

Robert Biehl

Philipp Huelsdunk

Ulf Blanke

Didier Stricker

Jan Hirzel

Stephan Krauss

Thomas Bader

Sebastian Hohmann

Henning Hamer

Sebastian Palacio

Roel Heremans

Michael Leigsnering

Paul Idstein

Sergey Sukhanov

Arno Mittelbach

Stefan Diener

Arsenii Sawchuk

Rohit Mande

Systems and methods enable providing various virtual activities. One of the methods comprises obtaining images of a physical area acquired by an imaging device, generating a virtual activity world representative of the physical area, the generating comprising using at least part of the images to map physical elements of a plurality of physical elements, to the virtual activity world, wherein the physical elements include a given physical element movable by the user, and adding one or more virtual objects to the virtual activity world, using the virtual activity world to detect an interaction between the given physical element mapped to the virtual activity world, and a given virtual object, responsive to a detected interaction, determining an outcome of the interaction, applying a change in the virtual activity world corresponding to the outcome, and displaying a representation of the virtual activity world on a display device.

Systems and methods of providing virtual activities

The presently disclosed subject matter there includes a computerized device that comprises a processing circuitry, and one or more sensors including at least one image sensor configured to continuously capture images of an environment; the processing circuitry is configured to process the captured images and: detect an object within the environment; track a trajectory of movement of the object; select a best fitting motion model to the trajectory and determine a state of the object based on the best fitting motion model; and determine at least one intersection point between the object and a target object.

Tracking dynamics using a computerized device

A system, method or computer program product for estimating an absolute 3D location of at least one object x imaged by a single camera, the system including processing circuitry configured for identifying an interaction, at time t, of object x with an object y imaged with said object x by said single camera, typically including logic for determining object y's absolute 3D location at time t, and providing an output indication of object x's absolute location at time t, derived from the 3D location, as known, at time t, of object y.

System, method and computer program product for determining sizes and/or 3D locations of objects imaged by a single camera

A method and system of identifying in an image captured by a second camera a target object captured by a first camera is disclosed. The method comprises using image captured by the 1camera for generating a first set of objects comprising the target object and other objects; classifying each object to generate a reference group of attribute values characterizing the objects; using image captured by the 2camera for generating second sets of objects; classifying each object in each second set to generate, for each second set, a corresponding group of attribute values characterizing the objects in the corresponding second set; selecting the second set of objects corresponding to the group of attribute values best matching the reference group of attribute values; and identifying the target object in the selected second set of objects in accordance with a position of the target object in the first set of objects.

Multi-camera vehicle identification system

A method for automatically matching video streams from two cameras of a camera network includes obtaining a video stream of frames that are acquired by each of the cameras. Each video stream includes images of moving objects. A time signature for each of the video streams is calculated. Each time signature is indicative of a time at which an image of one the objects is located at a predetermined part of the frame. A temporal offset of one of the signatures relative to the other signature is calculated such that, when applied to one of the signatures, a correspondence between the signatures is maximized. The temporal offset is applicable to video streams that are acquired by the two cameras to determine if a moving object that is imaged by one of the cameras is identical to a moving object that is imaged by the other camera.

Automatic time signature-based video matching for a camera network

A method for automatic spatial calibration of a network of cameras along a road includes, processing a frame that is obtained from each camera of the network to automatically identify an image of a pattern of road markings that have a known spatial relationship to one another. The identified images are used to calculate a position of each camera relative to the pattern of road markings that is imaged by that camera. Geographical information is applied to calculate an absolute position of a field of view of each camera. A global optimization is applied to adjust the absolute position of the field of view of each camera of the camera network relative to an absolute position of the fields of view of other cameras of the camera network.

Automatic spatial calibration of camera network

A method, system, and computer program product for stabilizing frames, the method comprising: receiving a frame sequence comprising three or more frames, including a current frame; determining salient feature points within the frames; matching the salient feature points between the frames; dropping salient feature points associated with advancing objects; dropping salient feature points associated with objects moving in shaking movements; computing a transformation between pairs of consecutive frames from amongst the at least three frames, based upon non-dropped salient feature points, thereby obtaining a multiplicity of transformations; determining a center position for the frames based upon the multiplicity of transformations; determining a stabilizing transformation from a current frame to the center position; and applying the stabilizing transformation to the current frame to obtain a stabilized frame.

Method and system for stabilizing video frames

In queues, persons&#x2014;or objects () in general&#x2014;move inside an area () to a target (), such as to a counter. The queue has movement characteristics in terms of speed, waiting times and queue form. A computer-implemented approach obtains the characteristics by receiving a sequence () of image frames () that represent the surveillance area (); calculating flow vectors that indicate an optical displacement for the sequence () of image frames (); extending one of the flow vectors as lead vector in extension directions; determining intermediate vectors by using flow vectors along the extension directions; and selecting one the intermediate vectors as the new lead vector. The steps are repeated to concatenate the lead vectors to the movement characteristics ().

Image processing to derive movement characteristics for a plurality of queue objects

A computer implemented method, computer program product, and computer system for determining camera calibration data. The computer system receives geo-positional data of a moving object, wherein the geo-positional data is associated with an indicator (). The computer system receives further a sequence of frames () from the at least one camera (), wherein at least one frame has a picture of the moving object () with a structure and with an encoded version of the indicator which are optically recognizable. The indicator associated with the at least one frame is extracted by decoding () the optically encoded version of the indicator of the at least one frame. The geo-positional data of the moving object which is in the picture of the at least one frame is obtained by matching () the indicator associated with the geo-positional data of the moving object and the decoded indicator associated with the at least one frame. At least one reference point of the at least one frame is identified by analyzing the optically recognizable structure in the picture of the at least one frame. The camera calibration data of the at least one camera is determined by applying a geometric transformation () on the at least one reference point and its associated geopositional data of the moving object which is in the at least one frame.

Calibration of camera-based surveillance systems

A target object captured by a first camera is identified in images captured by a second camera. A reference platoon comprising the target object and other objects is generated using first camera images. A reference group characterizing the objects in the reference platoon is generated by running a first set of trained classifiers over the reference platoon, the first set of trained classifiers trained to characterize objects captured by the first camera. Candidate platoons are generated using second camera images. Candidate groups characterizing objects in the candidate platoons are obtained by running an independently trained second set of classifiers over the candidate platoons, the second set characterizing objects captured by the second camera. Candidate groups are compared to the reference group, and a best matching candidate platoon is selected. The target object is identified in the selected candidate platoon based on the object's position in the reference platoon.

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