Seeing and Understanding People

This manuscript and associated talk gives an historical but not exhaustive overview of work in the Cognitive Vision Lab at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing. Work concentrates on people, tracking or identifying their actions and interpreting the meaning of those actions. To do this we employ techniques from a variety of sources which include the use of Mutual Information in Tracking, Data mining in Learning and using linguistics in classification. This Manuscript covers approaches to General Tracking, Multutal Information Estimation, Human Pose Estimation, Head and Hand Tracking, Expression Recognition, Lip Reading, Non Verbal Communication, Sign Language Recognition and Activity Recognition.