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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2008
Ying Zhu, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Gregory Baratoff, Wangen-Feld, DE;
Thorsten Köhler, Lindau, DE;
Ying Zhu, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Gregory Baratoff, Wangen-Feld, DE;
Thorsten Köhler, Lindau, DE;
Siemens Corporation, Iselin, NJ (US);
Continental Automotive GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Abstract
A method for vehicle detection and tracking includes acquiring video data including a plurality of frames, comparing a first frame of the acquired video data against a set of one or more vehicle detectors to form vehicle hypotheses, pruning and verifying the vehicle hypotheses using a set of course-to-fine constraints to detect a vehicle, and tracking the detected vehicle within one or more subsequent frames of the acquired video data by fusing shape template matching with one or more vehicle detectors.