Intelligent Transportation Systems: Real-time Tracking

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Vision Lab
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota


Back to Projects
Intersection Monitoring
Detection and Classification of Vehicles
Driver Fatigue Monitoring
Monitoring crowded scenes


Publications:

Moving Shadow Detection with Low- and Mid-Level Reasoning. (PDF)
A. Joshi, S. Atev, O. Masoud, N. Papanikolopoulos. Moving Shadow Detection with Low- and Mid-Level Reasoning. In Proc. IEEE Int'l. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2007), Apr. 2007.
Practical Mixtures of Gaussians with Brightness Monitoring. (PDF)
S. Atev, O. Masoud, N. Papanikolopoulos. Practical Mixtures of Gaussians with Brightness Monitoring. In Proc. IEEE Conf. Intell. Transport. Syst. (ITSC 2004), pp. 423−428, Oct. 2004.
A novel method for tracking and counting pedestrians in real-time using a single camera. (PDF)
O. Masoud,  N. P. Papanikolopoulos. A novel method for tracking and counting pedestrians in real-time using a single camera. IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, vol. 50, no. 5, pp. 1267-1278, Sep. 2001. 
(Awarded the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Land Transportation Paper Award, March 2002)
Robust Pedestrian Tracking using a model-based approach. (PDF)
O. Masoud, and N. P. Papanikolopoulos. Robust Pedestrian Tracking using a model-based approach. in Proc. IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston, MA, pp. 338-343, Nov. 1997.
A Robust real-time multi-level model-based pedestrian tracking system. (PDF)
O. Masoud, and N. P. Papanikolopoulos. A Robust real-time multi-level model-based pedestrian tracking system. In Proc. ITS America Seventh Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, pp. 47, Jun. 1997. 
Pedestrian tracking from a stationary camera using active deformable models. (PDF)
M.J. Sullivan, C.A. Richards, C.E. Smith, O. Masoud, N.P. Papanikolopoulos. Pedestrian Tracking from a stationary camera using active deformable models. In Proc. Intelligent Vehicles ’95, pp. 90-95, Detroit, MI, Sep. 1995.

Demos:

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Shadow Detection Movie (4.6M)


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Vehicle Tracking Movie (4.6M)


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 Real-time tracking on an intersection (4.1M)


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 Vehicle Following showing real-time tracking (0.55M)

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Pedestrian tracking in real-time (3.9M)

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Tracking people and vehicles at night (9.5M)


People:

Faculty
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

Research Associate
Osama Masoud
Graduate Students
Harini Veeraraghavan
Stefan Atev
Ajay Joshi



This work is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Minnesota Department of Transportation, and the Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.