Target Tracking and 3D Trajectory Reconstruction Based on Multicamera Calibration

Abstract

In traffic scenarios, vehicle trajectories can provide almost all the dynamic information of moving vehicles. Analyzing the vehicle trajectory in the monitoring scene can grasp the dynamic road traffic information. Cross-camera association of vehicle trajectories in multiple cameras can break the isolation of target information between single cameras and obtain the overall road operation conditions in a large-scale video surveillance area, which helps road traffic managers to conduct traffic analysis, prediction, and control. Based on the framework of DBT automatic target detection, this paper proposes a cross-camera vehicle trajectory correlation matching method based on the Euclidean distance metric correlation of trajectory points. For the multitarget vehicle trajectory acquired in a single camera, we first perform 3D trajectory reconstruction based on the combined camera calibration in the overlapping area and then complete the similarity association between the cross-camera trajectories and the cross-camera trajectory update, and complete the trajectory transfer of the vehicle between adjacent cameras. Experiments show that the method in this paper can well solve the problem that the current tracking technology is difficult to match the vehicle trajectory under different cameras in complex traffic scenes and essentially achieves long-term and long-distance continuous tracking and trajectory acquisition of multiple targets across cameras.