Second IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '96)
Pfinder: real-time tracking of the human body
Killington, Vermont
October 14-October 16
ISBN: 0-8186-7713-9
C. Wren, Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Pfinder is a real-time system for tracking and interpretation of people. It runs on a standard SGI Indy computer, and has performed reliably on thousands of people in many different physical locations. The system uses a multi-class statistical model of color and shape to obtain a 2-D representation of head and hands in a wide range of viewing conditions. These representations are useful for applications such as wireless interfaces, video databases, and low-bandwidth coding, without cumbersome wires or attached sensors.
Index Terms:
optical tracking; real-time tracking; human body; Pfinder; SGI Indy computer; multi-class statistical model; head; hands; wireless interfaces; video databases; low-bandwidth coding
Citation:
C. Wren, A. Azarbayejani, T. Darrell, A. Pentland, "Pfinder: real-time tracking of the human body," fg, pp.51, Second IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '96), 1996