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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2003
Applicants:
Anurag Mittal, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Nikolaos Paragios, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Visvanathan Ramesh, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Anurag Mittal, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Nikolaos Paragios, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Visvanathan Ramesh, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of tracking an object comprises providing a plurality of cameras, determining an image from each camera, and determining a common plane in the images. The method further comprises determining a parallax for scene points across the images, incorporating the parallax as a feature in a background model, and estimating a change in the scene using the background model. A camera can be a pan-tilt-zoom camera. A camera can be uncalibrated.