Patent ID: 11937018
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A method for re-identifying people (4) in surveillance images (6a, b), in which method:
people (4) are detected in the surveillance images (6a, b);
objects (8) are detected in the surveillance images (6a, b), which detection of the objects (8) involves obtaining object information for the detected objects;
an action of a person (4) on an object of the detected objects (8) is detected;
when at least one action condition is satisfied, object information for the object (8) is assigned to the person (4) for re-identification;
the assigned object information from a plurality of different surveillance subareas (2a, b) is compared; and
when there is a match for the assigned object information from at least two different surveillance subareas (2a, b), the person (4) is re-identified in the surveillance images (6a, b).