Real-time Accurate Pedestrian Detection and Tracking in Challenging Surveillance Videos

This paper proposes a novel approach for real-time robust pedestrian tracking in surveillance images. Such images are challenging to analyse since the overall image quality is low (e.g. low resolution and high compression). Furthermore often birds-eye viewpoint wide-angle lenses are used to achieve maximum coverage with a minimal amount of cameras. These specific viewpoints make it difficult - or even unfeasible - to directly apply existing pedestrian detection techniques. Moreover, real-time processing speeds are required. To overcome these problems we introduce a pedestrian detection and tracking framework which exploits and integrates these scene constraints to achieve excellent accuracy results. We performed extensive experiments on challenging real-life video sequences concerning both speed and accuracy. We show that our approach achieves excellent accuracy results while still meeting the stringent real-time demands needed for these surveillance applications, using only a single-core CPU implementation.status: publishe