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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Quang Tuan Pham, North Ryde, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Method, system, apparatus and computer readable medium for re-identifying a query objection moving from a first camera view to a second camera view. The method comprises the steps of accessing a first set of image frames (Q) captured from the first camera view and a second set of image frames (C) captured from the second camera view; selecting a first representative frame (QR) from the first set of image frames and a second representative frame (CR) from the second set of image frames based on a plurality of intra-camera object appearance distances between frame pairs in each set of image frames; and re-identifying the candidate object in the second camera view as the query object in the first camera view based on at least one inter-camera object appearance distance (D) calculated between the first representative frame and the second representative frame.