Nvidia patents video system that swaps tracking methods on the fly
This patent describes a video analytics system that can switch between different object tracking algorithms while monitoring a scene. Instead of using one fixed method, the software changes how it tracks objects based on a specific request, moving from one type of tracker to another.
In the filing’s own words
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for dynamically composable object tracker configuration for intelligent video analytics systems. A state of one or more objects included in an object is tracked using an object tracking application that implements an object tracker of a first type based on images depicting the environment. A request is received to perform tracking using a second object tracker type that is different from the first object tracker type. The object tracking application is configured to implement an object tracker of the second object tracker type in accordance with the request. The state of the objects in the environment is tracked using the object tracking application that implements the object tracker of the second object tracker type based on the images depicting the environment.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: tracking, using an object tracking application that implements an object tracker of a first object tracker type, a state of one or more objects included in an environment based at least on images depicting the environment, wherein the first object tracker type is one of a set of object tracker types comprising two or more of: a location-based object tracker type, a simple, online, real-time (SORT) object tracker type, a visual feature-based object tracker type, or a discriminative correlation feature (DCF) object tracker type; receiving a request to perform tracking using a second object tracker type of the set of object tracker types, wherein the second object tracker type is different from the first object tracker type; configuring the object tracking application to implement an object tracker of the second object tracker type in accordance with the request; and tracking, using the object tracking application that implements the object tracker of the second object tracker type, the state of the objects included in the environment based on the images depicting the environment.
Facts
- Company
- Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
- Official title
- Dynamically composable object tracker configuration for intelligent video analytics systems
- Patent number
- US12738061B2
- Application number
- 18661481
- Filed
- May 10, 2024
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06V 20/49 Physics & computingG06F 18/22 Physics & computingG06V 20/10 Physics & computingG06V 20/46 Physics & computingMore from Nvidia in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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