Visual Analysis of Humans

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 Fernández, 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

Dr. Thomas B. Moeslund is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.

From the reviews:"This book is a collection of 30 scientific papers organized in four parts. The topics that are reviewed in this book are mainly people and face detection, pose estimation, tracking and activity recognition. The book covers a broad domain making the book appealing to not only graduate students in the computer vision field, but also scholars and researchers." (Norberto Goussies, IAPR Newsletter, Vol. 35 (3), July, 2013)