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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2009
Kazuya Ueki, Koto-ku, JP;
Yihong Gong, Cupertino, CA (US);
Fengjun LV, Cupertino, CA (US);
NEC Soft, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A human tracking apparatus and method capable of highly accurately tracking the movement of persons photographed in moving images includes: an image memorythat stores an inputted frame image; a human detecting unitthat detects persons photographed in the inputted frame image; a candidate registering unitthat registers already detected persons as candidates; a similarity index calculating unitthat calculates similarity indices indicating the similarity between the persons detected in the inputted frame image and the registered candidates for two or more types of parameters based on the stored frame images in relation to all combinations of the persons and the candidates; a normalizing unitthat normalizes the similarity indices; an integrating unitthat integrates the normalized indices for each combination of the detected persons and the candidates; and a tracking unitthat identifies a person the same as an arbitrary candidate based on the similarity indices.