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Towards a Principled Integration of Multi-Camera Re-Identification and Tracking through Optimal Bayes Filters
With the rise of end-to-end learning through deep learning, person detectors
and re-identification (ReID) models have recently become very strong.
Multi-camera multi-target (MCMT) tracking has not fully gone through this
transformation yet. We intend to take another step in this direction by
presenting a theoretically principled way of integrating ReID with tracking
formulated as an optimal Bayes filter. This conveniently side-steps the need
for data-association and opens up a direct path from full images to the core of
the tracker. While the results are still sub-par, we believe that this new,
tight integration opens many interesting research opportunities and leads the
way towards full end-to-end tracking from raw pixels.Comment: First two authors have equal contribution. This is initial work into
a new direction, not a benchmark-beating method. v2 only adds
acknowledgements and fixes a typo in e-mai
Deep Detection of People and their Mobility Aids for a Hospital Robot
Robots operating in populated environments encounter many different types of
people, some of whom might have an advanced need for cautious interaction,
because of physical impairments or their advanced age. Robots therefore need to
recognize such advanced demands to provide appropriate assistance, guidance or
other forms of support. In this paper, we propose a depth-based perception
pipeline that estimates the position and velocity of people in the environment
and categorizes them according to the mobility aids they use: pedestrian,
person in wheelchair, person in a wheelchair with a person pushing them, person
with crutches and person using a walker. We present a fast region proposal
method that feeds a Region-based Convolutional Network (Fast R-CNN). With this,
we speed up the object detection process by a factor of seven compared to a
dense sliding window approach. We furthermore propose a probabilistic position,
velocity and class estimator to smooth the CNN's detections and account for
occlusions and misclassifications. In addition, we introduce a new hospital
dataset with over 17,000 annotated RGB-D images. Extensive experiments confirm
that our pipeline successfully keeps track of people and their mobility aids,
even in challenging situations with multiple people from different categories
and frequent occlusions. Videos of our experiments and the dataset are
available at http://www2.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~kollmitz/MobilityAidsComment: 7 pages, ECMR 2017, dataset and videos:
http://www2.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~kollmitz/MobilityAids
The First Stage in Hendry’s Reduction Theory Revisited
The reduction theory of David F. Hendry provides a comprehensive probabilistic framework for the analysis and classification of the reductions associated with empirical econometric models. However, it is unable to provide an analysis on the same underlying probability space of the first reduction - and hence the subsequent reductions - given a commonplace theory of social reality, namely the joint hypotheses that the course of history is indeterministic, that history does not repeat itsself, and that the future depends on the past. As a solution this essay proposes that the elements of the underlying outcome space in Hendry’s theory are interpreted as indeterministic worlds made up of historically inherited particulars.Theory of recution; DGP, Possible worlds; Measurement error; Probabilistic causality
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