Moeslund T. (Ed.) Visual Analysis of Humans

London: Springer, 2011. - 632 p.
Understanding human activity from video is one of the central problems in the field
of computer vision. It is driven by a wide variety of applications in communications,
entertainment, security, commerce and athletics. At its foundations are a set
of fundamental computer vision problems that have largely driven the great progress
that the field has made during the past few decades. In this book, the editors have
assembled many of the world’s leading authorities on video analysis of humans to
assemble a comprehensive and authoritative set of chapters that cover both the core
computer vision problems and the wide range of applications that solutions to these
problems would enable.
The book is divided in four parts that cover detection and tracking of humans in
video, measure human pose and movement from video, using these measurements
to infer the activities that people are participating in, and finally describing the main
applications areas that are based on these technologies. The book would be an excellent
choice for a second graduate course on computer vision, or for a seminar on
video analysis of human movement and activities. The combination of chapters that
survey fundamental problems with others that go deeply into current approaches to
topics provides the book with the excellent balance needed to support a well balanced
course.