Synthetic Aperture Tracking: Tracking through Occlusions

Occlusion is a significant challenge for many tracking algorithms. Most current methods can track through transient occlusion, but cannot handle significant extended occlusion when the object's trajectory may change significantly. We present a method to track a 2D object through significant occlusion using multiple nearby cameras (e.g., a camera array).
http://people.csail.mit.edu/wojciech/

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• tracking
• camera
• array
• synthetic
• aperture
• surveillance
• computer
• vision
• 3D
• system
• crowd
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[eklipz330]

i find it funny that we just made this... but spiders are like PFFFT we been dun this shit yo!

seriously, if we followed the form of nature and evolution more often, we'd probably advance in technology a lot faster

[Matrix29bear]

Brilliant. I hope I can see a form of this software on commercial cameras soon in the future. You've solved a number of imagining and object-tracking problems in a very simple way (with a lens modification and computational depth tracking).

[hoanglehoi]

oh! barack obama links this vid on his facebook page!

[kidgill2000]

this would be good for augmented reality keeping digital objects consistent even when they get ocluded

[demoduderox]

awesome!!

bring it on!!!