OBJECT IDENTIFICATION BETWEEN NON-OVERLAPPING CAMERAS WITHOUT DIRECT FEATURE MATCHING

摘要

A system and method for identifying objects, particularly vehicles, between two non-overlapping cameras (2). More specifically, the method and system determines whether a vehicle depicted in an image captured by a first camera is the same vehicle or a different vehicle than a vehicle depicted in an image captured by a second camera. This intra-camera analysis determines whether the vehicle viewed by the first camera is the same as the vehicle viewed by the second camera, without directly matching the two vehicle images (4), thus eliminating the problems and inaccuracies caused by disparate environmental conditions acting on the two cameras, such as dramatic appearance and aspect changes.