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The People Image Analysis (PIA) Consortium develops and distributes technologies that process images and videos to detect, track, and understand people's face, body, and activities. The areas of technology that the PIA Consortium focuses on include detection and tracking of humans, face recognition, facial expression analysis, gait analysis, and activity recognition. The goal of the Consortium is to develop a comprehensive set of imaging and processing tools, systems, or subsystems that work in the real-world environment. The Consortium's full and associate members contribute funds to support researchers at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. In return, members receive the advanced research and development for PIA technologies, as well as the results of related publicly-funded research. Members also receive the benefit of participating in workshops, sending visiting scientists to conduct research at the Robotics Institute, recruiting graduates, and networking. The Member Agreement Form can bedownloaded at : PIA Consortium Agreement (PDF).

Head:	Takeo Kanade
Contact:	Jun-Su Jang   (jsjang at cs.cmu.edu)

Architecture

PIA and Affiliated Projects

Video Processing Techniques

Camera Calibration and Undistortion Using LCD A system to calibrate camera and correct the non-linear distortion of camera lenses ( Source Code Available ) Local Feature Framework Our local feature framework prototype system contains three major modules: feature extraction, matching, and localization ( Source Code Available ) Video Stabilization A prototype system to stablize the video if the camera is shaking or moving. The output video will be stable as if the camera is virtually not moving at all. ( Source Code Available ) Multiple View Geometry Toolbox A system to provides a group of functions to compute fundamental matrix, projective transformation, affine transformation between two images by robust estimation. ( Source Code Available ) Virtual Background Motion Detection A Virtual Background Model to detect motion with a moving camera. ( Source Code Available ) Image Enhancement: Denight and Defog A system to enhance image quality under night time or bad whether such as fog, rain, and snow. ( Source Code Available ) Flow-Based Background Estimation A Bayesian framework for estimating dense optical flow over time that explicitly estimates a persistent model of background appearance. Layered Detection A system for detecting multiple overlapping objects from a real-time video stream. Master-Slave Distant Human Identification (DHID) A master-slave real-time surveillance system designed to detect, track, and acquire biometric imagery of humans at distance. ( Source Code Available ) Video Surveillance and Monitoring (VSAM) An end-to-end prototype system demonstrating a wide range of advanced automated video surveillance and monitoring techniques. ( Source Code Available ) Camera Calibration Algorithm Using Planar Calibration Patterns A novel camera calibration method can increases not only an accuracy of intrinsic camera parameters but also an accuracy of stereo camera calibration by utilizing a single framework for square, circle, and ring planar calibration patterns.

Detecting,Tracking & Recognizing

Articulated Motion Analysis Human articulated poses are estimated from a monocular video by combining appearance-based and model-based approaches. Omega-Shape Tracker Techniques to track Head and Shoulder Line with a Omega-Shape model. ( Source Code Available ) Tracking Evaluation Testbed A testbed system to evaluate and compare various tracking algorithms. ( Source Code Available ) Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On An overview and extension to Lucas-Kanade image alignment algorithm, one of the most widely used techniques in computer vision. ( Source Code Available ) Human Detection and Tracking Techniques to detect and tracking human Head/Torso/Arms/Legs by probabilistic human body representation. Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer (CAMEO) A sensory system designed to provide an electronic agent with physical awareness of the real world. Event Detection in Videos Our event detection method can detect a wide range of actions in video by correlating spatio-temporal shapes to over-segmented videos without background subtraction. ( Source Code Available ) Multi-People Tracking Our multi-people tracking method can automatically initialize and terminate paths of people and follow multiple and changeable number of people on cluttered scenes over long time intervals. Multi-view Car Detection and Registration This method can detect cars with occlusions and varying viewpoints from a single still images by using multi-class boosting algorithm. Hand Tracking and 3-D Pose Estimation A 2-D and 3-D model-based tracking method can track a human hand rapidly moving and deformed on complicated backgrounds and recover its 3-D pose parameters.

Face and Facial Expression

2D and 3D Face Alignment Automatically identify key facial feature points on frontal or side view faces. ( Online Demonstration ) Face Tracking using AAM and Cylinder Head Tracker A method to combine the AAM and the Cylinder Head Tracker so that we can robustly tracking the face on all view angles. ( Source Code Available ) 3D Head Motion Recovery A method to recover the full-motion (3 rotations and 3 translations) of the head using a cylindrical model. ( Source Code Available ) Hallucinating Faces A Super-resolution algorithm to yield 4-8 fold improvements in resolution (16-64 times as many pixels) using as few as 2-3 images ( Source Code Available ) Face Detection A neural network-based face detection system to detect faces at any degree of rotation in the image plane. ( Source Code Available ) AAM Face Modeling and Fitting Techniques for building and fitting 2D and 3D models of human faces and heads. Facial Expression Analysis An interdisciplinary research group that covers expertise in facial expression analysis. Pose, Illumination, and Expression (PIE) Face Database A face database collection of 41,368 images of 68 people. Each face is under 13 different poses, 43 different illumination conditions, and with 4 different expressions. Feature-based 3D Head Tracking A feature-based head tracking algorithm can handle occlusions and fast motion of face. Real-time Face Detection A face detection system has an accurate detection rate and real time performance by using an ensemble of weak classifiers. Spatio-Temporal Facial Expression Segmentation A two-step approach temporally segment facial gestures from video sequences. It can register the rigid and non-rigid motion of the face.

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