VASC Seminar Announcement
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Date: Monday, 3/15/99
Time: 3:30-4:30
Place: Smith Hall 2nd Floor Common Area

Speaker:  Liang Zhao
          CMU Robotics Institute
          http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lzhao


Title: Stereo and Neural Network-Based People Detection

Abstract:

In this talk, I will present a real-time people detection system that 
uses a pair of moving cameras to detect both stationary and moving
people in crowded environments. This is achieved through stereo-based
segmentation and neural network-based recognition. Stereo-based 
segmentation allows us to extract objects from a changing background; 
neural network-based recognition allows us to identify people in various 
poses, shapes, sizes, clothing, and occlusion status. The experiments 
on a lot of urban street scenes demonstrate the feasibility of the 
approach in terms of people detection rate and frame processing rate.