Social Interaction based Handling Inter-Person Occlusion for Online Multi-Pedestrian Tracking

How to deal with occlusion among persons plays important role in robust multi-pedestrian tracking field. This paper proposes to handle inter-person occlusion by introducing social interaction - attraction and grouping from 2D image plane. This social interaction is systematically studied based on spatial-temporal information without utilizing any scene knowledge. Attraction is integrated into hierarchical data-association as a penalizing …