@conference {12705,
	title = {Vehicle detection and tracking using acoustic and video sensors},
	booktitle = {Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004. Proceedings. (ICASSP {\textquoteright}04). IEEE International Conference on},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2004},
	month = {2004/05//},
	pages = {iii - 793-6 vol.3 - iii - 793-6 vol.3},
	abstract = {Multimodal sensing has attracted much attention in solving a wide range of problems, including target detection, tracking, classification, activity understanding, speech recognition, etc. In surveillance applications, different types of sensors, such as video and acoustic sensors, provide distinct observations of ongoing activities. We present a fusion framework using both video and acoustic sensors for vehicle detection and tracking. In the detection phase, a rough estimate of target direction-of-arrival (DOA) is first obtained using acoustic data through beam-forming techniques. This initial DOA estimate designates the approximate target location in video. Given the initial target position, the DOA is refined by moving target detection using the video data. Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques are then used for joint audio-visual tracking. A novel fusion approach has been proposed for tracking, based on different characteristics of audio and visual trackers. Experimental results using both synthetic and real data are presented. Improved tracking performance has been observed by fusing the empirical posterior probability density functions obtained using both types of sensors.},
	keywords = {acoustic, applications;, audio, audio-visual, beam-forming, Carlo, chain, density, detection;, direction-of-arrival, DOA, empirical, estimation;, framework;, functions;, fusion, fusion;, joint, Markov, methods;, Monte, moving, multimodal, object, optical, posterior, probability, probability;, processes;, processing;, sensing;, sensor, sensors;, signal, Surveillance, surveillance;, systems;, target, techniques;, tracking;, vehicle, video},
	doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2004.1326664},
	author = {Chellapa, Rama and Qian,Gang and Qinfen Zheng}
}
@article {12752,
	title = {A generic approach to simultaneous tracking and verification in video},
	journal = {Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2002},
	month = {2002/05//},
	pages = {530 - 544},
	abstract = {A generic approach to simultaneous tracking and verification in video data is presented. The approach is based on posterior density estimation using sequential Monte Carlo methods. Visual tracking, which is in essence a temporal correspondence problem, is solved through probability density propagation, with the density being defined over a proper state space characterizing the object configuration. Verification is realized through hypothesis testing using the estimated posterior density. In its most basic form, verification can be performed as follows. Given a measurement vector Z and two hypotheses H<sub>1</sub> and H0, we first estimate posterior probabilities P(H<sub>0</sub>|Z) and P(H<sub>1</sub>|Z), and then choose the one with the larger posterior probability as the true hypothesis. Several applications of the approach are illustrated by experiments devised to evaluate its performance. The idea is first tested on synthetic data, and then experiments with real video sequences are presented, illustrating vehicle tracking and verification, human (face) tracking and verification, facial feature tracking, and image sequence stabilization.},
	keywords = {approach;, Carlo, configuration;, correspondence, data;, density, density;, estimated, estimation;, evaluation;, extraction;, Face, facial, feature, generic, human, hypothesis, image, measurement, methods;, Monte, object, performance, posterior, probability, probability;, problem;, processing;, propagation;, recognition;, road, sequence, sequences;, sequential, signal, space;, stabilization;, state, synthetic, temporal, testing;, tracking;, vector;, vehicle, vehicles;, verification;, video, visual},
	isbn = {1057-7149},
	doi = {10.1109/TIP.2002.1006400},
	author = {Li,Baoxin and Chellapa, Rama}
}
@article {12748,
	title = {Optimal edge-based shape detection},
	journal = {Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2002},
	month = {2002/11//},
	pages = {1209 - 1227},
	abstract = {We propose an approach to accurately detecting two-dimensional (2-D) shapes. The cross section of the shape boundary is modeled as a step function. We first derive a one-dimensional (1-D) optimal step edge operator, which minimizes both the noise power and the mean squared error between the input and the filter output. This operator is found to be the derivative of the double exponential (DODE) function, originally derived by Ben-Arie and Rao (1994). We define an operator for shape detection by extending the DODE filter along the shape{\textquoteright}s boundary contour. The responses are accumulated at the centroid of the operator to estimate the likelihood of the presence of the given shape. This method of detecting a shape is in fact a natural extension of the task of edge detection at the pixel level to the problem of global contour detection. This simple filtering scheme also provides a tool for a systematic analysis of edge-based shape detection. We investigate how the error is propagated by the shape geometry. We have found that, under general assumptions, the operator is locally linear at the peak of the response. We compute the expected shape of the response and derive some of its statistical properties. This enables us to predict both its localization and detection performance and adjust its parameters according to imaging conditions and given performance specifications. Applications to the problem of vehicle detection in aerial images, human facial feature detection, and contour tracking in video are presented.},
	keywords = {1D, 2D, aerial, analysis;, boundary, conditions;, contour, cross, detection;, DODE, double, edge, edge-based, error, error;, exponential, extraction;, facial, feature, filter, filter;, Filtering, function;, geometry;, global, human, images;, imaging, localization, mean, methods;, NOISE, operator;, optimal, optimisation;, output;, performance;, pixel;, power;, propagation;, properties;, section;, SHAPE, square, squared, statistical, step, theory;, tracking;, two-dimensional, vehicle, video;},
	isbn = {1057-7149},
	doi = {10.1109/TIP.2002.800896},
	author = {Moon, H. and Chellapa, Rama and Rosenfeld, A.}
}
