Title
Tracking pedestrians with bacterial foraging optimization swarms
Abstract
Pedestrian tracking is an important problem with many practical applications in fields such as security, animation, and human computer interaction (HCI). In this paper, we introduce a previously-unexplored swarm intelligence approach to multi-object monocular tracking by using Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO) swarms to drive a novel part-based pedestrian appearance tracker. We show that tracking a pedestrian by segmenting the body into parts outperforms popular blob based methods and that using BFO can improve performance over traditional Particle Swarm Optimization and Particle Filter methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/CEC.2011.5949658
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
particle filter methods,particle filtering (numerical methods),part-based pedestrian appearance tracker,human computer interaction,multiobject monocular tracking,bacterial foraging optimization,bacterial foraging optimization swarms,particle swarm optimisation,image segmentation,uncalibrated cameras,pedestrian tracking,object tracking,monocular pedestrian tracking,swarm intelligence approach,swarm intelligence,blob-based methods,indexing terms,particle swarm optimization,histograms,microorganisms,optimization,particle filter
Particle swarm optimization,Histogram,Computer vision,Computer science,Swarm intelligence,Particle filter,Image segmentation,Video tracking,Artificial intelligence,Animation,Foraging
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
Pending
978-1-4244-7834-7
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hoang Thanh Nguyen1122.39
Bir Bhanu23356380.19