Zero-stopping constraint-based hybrid tracking model for dynamic and high-dense crowd videos

ABSTRACT

Owing to the importance of video surveillance in the public area, tracking finds significant applications using computer vision algorithms to observe the activity of human. In tracking, multi-object tracking is an active research to analyse and detect the activity of anomalies in the crowded scenes. Accordingly, different multi-object tracking algorithms are proposed in the literature to track the human behaviour of the crowded scenes. In this paper, we have presented a zero-stopping criteria-based hybrid tracking algorithm for high-dense crowd videos. Here, head objects are detected using the proposed objective function which considers both colour and texture property of videos. Then, tracking based on motion is performed using the proposed HSIM measure which includes structural similarity (SSIM) and the proposed similarity function. Along with, the data prediction model, exponential weighted moving average (EWMA), is also utilised to track the spatial location of human objects. These two tracking models are then hybridised to obtain the final tracked output. The experimentation is performed with three marathon sequences and the performance is evaluated with particle filtering-based algorithm using tracking number, tracking distance and optimal subpattern assignment metric (OSPA).

KEYWORDS:

• Video surveillance
• object tracking
• head object
• motion estimation
• crowd video