STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY. PART II: INVESTIGATION OF SPECIFIC SENSORS

This paper presents an integrated human shape modeling, detection, and body part localization vision system. It demonstrates that the system can: detect pedestrians in various shapes, sizes, postures, partial occlusion, and clothing from a moving vehicle using stereo cameras; and locate the joints of a person automatically and accurately without employing any markers around the joints.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Transit Administration

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• Authors:
  • Mertz, C
• Conference:
  • Technical Information on Transit IVI Projects
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Date: 2002-10-28 to 2002-10-29
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 3p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Human body mass; Human factors; Identification systems; Intelligent vehicles; Location; Pedestrians; Sensors; Transit buses
• Identifier Terms: Intelligent Vehicle Initiative
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00936286
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jan 3 2003 12:00AM