Human Detection Using Oriented Histograms of Flow and Appearance
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2006Open access
Navneet Dalal, Bill Triggs, Cordelia Schmid
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A detector for standing and moving people in videos with possibly moving cameras and backgrounds is developed, testing several different motion coding schemes and showing empirically that orientated histograms of differential optical flow give the best overall performance.
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