This unique text/reference provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of all aspects of video analysis of humans. Broad in coverage and accessible in style, the text presents original perspectives collected from preeminent researchers gathered from across the world. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art research, the book reviews the historical origins of the different existing methods, and predicts future trends and challenges. Features: with a Foreword by Professor Larry Davis; contains contributions from an international selection of leading authorities in the field; includes an extensive glossary; discusses the problems associated with detecting and tracking people through camera networks; examines topics related to determining the time-varying 3D pose of a person from video; investigates the representation and recognition of human and vehicular actions; reviews the most important applications of activity recognition, from biometrics and surveillance, to sports and driver assistance.

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Part I: Detection and Tracking Is There Anybody Out There? Thomas B. Moeslund Beyond the Static Camera: Issues and Trends in Active Vision Murad Al Haj, Carles Fernandez, Zhanwu Xiong, Ivan Huerta, Jordi Gonzàlez and Xavier Roca Figure-Ground Segmentation - Pixel-Based Ahmed Elgammal Figure-Ground Segmentation - Object Based Bastian Leibe Face Detection Raghuraman Gopalan, William Robson Schwartz, Rama Chellappa, and Ankur Srivastava Wide Area Tracking in Single and Multiple Views B. Song, R. J. Sethi and A. K. Roy-Chowdhury Benchmark Datasets for Detection and Tracking Anna-Louise Ellis and James Ferryman Part II: Pose Estimation Articulated Pose Estimation and Tracking: Introduction Leonid Sigal Model-based Pose Estimation Gerard Pons-Moll and Bodo Rosenhahn Motion Models for People Tracking David J. Fleet Part-based Models for Finding People and Estimating Their Pose Deva Ramanan Feature-based Pose Estimation Cristian Sminchisescu, Liefeng Bo, Catalin Ionescu and Atul Kanaujia Benchmark Datasets for Pose Estimation and Tracking Mykhaylo Andriluka, Leonid Sigal and Michael J. Black Part III: Recognition On Human Action Aaron Bobick and Volker Krüger Motion Pattern Analysis for Modeling and Recognition of Complex Human Activities Nandita M. Nayak, Ricky J.Sethi, Bi Song, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury Action Recognition Using Topic Models Xiaogang Wang Learning Action Primitives Dana Kulic, Danica Kragic and Volker Krüger Contextual Action Recognition Hedvig Kjellström Facial Expression Analysis Fernando De la Torre and Jeffrey F. Cohn Benchmarking Datasets for Human Activity Recognition Haowei Liu, Rogerio Feris and Ming-Ting Sun Part IV: Applications Applications for Visual Analysis of People Adrian Hilton Image and Video-based Biometrics Vishal M. Patel, Jaishanker K. Pillai and Rama Chellappa Security and Surveillance Shaogang Gong, Chen Change Loy and Tao Xiang Predicting Pedestrian Trajectories Stefano Pellegrini, Andreas Ess and Luc Van Gool Human Computer Interaction Dennis Lin and Vuong Le and Thomas Huang Social Signal Processing: The Research Agenda Maja Pantic, Roderick Cowie, Francesca DErrico, Dirk Heylen, Marc Mehu, Catherine Pelachaud, Isabella Poggi, Marc Schroeder and Alessandro Vinciarelli Sign Language Recognition Helen Cooper, Brian Holt and Richard Bowden Sports TV Applications of Computer Vision Graham Thomas Multi-view 4D Reconstruction of Human Action for Entertainment Oliver Grau Vision for Driver Assistance: Looking at People in a Vehicle Cuong Tran and Mohan Manubhai Trivedi