Multimodal Vision Research Laboratory

MVRL

Research Area: Video Surveillance and Object Tracking

Video surveillance research addresses detection, tracking, and activity understanding in multi-camera settings—background modeling, anomaly detection, and efficient vehicle tracking across networks. This area reflects earlier MVRL work on large-scale visual monitoring prior to our current geospatial and ecology focus.

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  1. Sajid H, Jacobs N, Cheung S-ching S. 2019. Motion and Appearance based Background Subtraction for Freely Moving Cameras. Signal Processing: Image Communication. DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2019.03.003.
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  2. Sajid H, Cheung S-ching S, Jacobs N. 2016. Appearance based Background Subtraction for PTZ Cameras. Signal Processing: Image Communication. DOI: 10.1016/j.image.2016.07.008.
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  3. Thumbnail for LOST: Longterm Observation of Scenes (with Tracks)
    Abrams A, Tucek J, Little J, Jacobs N, Pless R. 2012. LOST: Longterm Observation of Scenes (with Tracks). In: IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 297–304. DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2012.6163032.
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  4. Jacobs N. 2010. Discovering, Localizing, Calibrating, and Using Thousands of Outdoor Webcams. Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA.
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  5. Dixon M, Jacobs N, Pless R. 2009. An Efficient System for Vehicle Tracking in Multi-Camera Networks. In: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC). 1–8. DOI: 10.1109/ICDSC.2009.5289383.
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  6. Pless R, Jacobs N, Dixon M, Hartley R, Baker P, Brock D, Cassimatis N, Perzanowski D. 2009. Persistence and Tracking: Putting Vehicles and Trajectories in Context. In: IEEE Applied Imagery and Pattern Recognition (AIPR). DOI: 10.1109/AIPR.2009.5466307.
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  7. Jacobs N, Dixon M, Satkin S, Pless R. 2009. Efficient Tracking of Many Objects in Structured Environments. In: IEEE ICCV Workshop on Visual Surveillance. 1161–1168. DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457477.
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  8. Jacobs N, Pless R. 2008. Time Scales in Video Surveillance. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) 18:1106–1113. DOI: 10.1109/TCSVT.2008.928215.
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  9. Jacobs N, Dixon M, Pless R. 2008. Location-specific Transition Distributions for Tracking. In: IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC). DOI: 10.1109/WMVC.2008.4544061.
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  10. Jacobs N, Pless R. 2007. Shape Background Modeling: The Shape of Things That Came. In: IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC). 1–6. DOI: 10.1109/WMVC.2007.35.
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  11. Jacobs N, Pless R. 2006. Real-time Constant Memory Visual Summaries for Surveillance. In: ACM International Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN). DOI: 10.1145/1178782.1178805.
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