Tracking A Person Through The System?

I fully confirm, perfect answer! Multicamera tracking it's still a research challenge, when you don't want to go in the "lab experiment" (or "commercial trick" if you prefere...;)..) but you really mean to do it in real life and generic conditions. As written correctly, color, shape, contours and any feature used by the trackers are drammatically changing camera by camera and to find a reliable way to do it it's still officially considered an open challenge in the scientific state of the art of video analysis.

You can try to approach something in case of "heavy" hypothesis a priori, that it means for example 1-2 persons in the system:

1) By cameras-map calibration you can approach an inertial strategy, tracking the person on the map and assuming that this guy exiting here and entering there, since his trajectory in the map is almost continuous, he should be the same one. Not available maybe in the market, but possible to develop it and reliable. But if I have more than 1 person interacting in that area, of course it will be much harder to decide correctly.

2) Simply connecting the analytics alerts in the VMS, automatically and in real time showing the cameras giving the "intrusion" alerts and correlated live view. This is a trick of course: the effect is to have the view of the same guy going camera by camera, but of course it's not a real multicamera tracking working. And of course this is working only with 1 person in the whole system.

Which kind of environment is in this case? For sure, for example, if the request is for tracking a customer in a commercial center or a criminal in a bank building........tell to him to forget it for many years and to beware to whom is proposing it to him!...;)

Cheers,

Simone

TechnoAware

Syd, you may not get the US questions right, but you are sure on top of Australian companies! :)

That's an interesting company and they are aiming to do that automatically using analytics. Thanks for sharing.

Here's their conceptual video, which does a good job of showing the hypothetical benefits (though it is a wildly optimistic scenario):

And here's their demo video - there is no audio but it shows the actual UI and the workflow of the software:

My main questions are: how much setup does this take? how accurate is the tracking / patterns? how much does it cost? how do you make it work with existing VMSes?

I've sent an email to Snap to ask for more details. We will do a post on them.