@INPROCEEDINGS{1236Senst2010, AUTHOR = {Tobias Senst and Rubén Heras Evangelio and Volker Eiselein and Michael Pätzold and Thomas Sikora}, TITLE = {TOWARDS DETECTING PEOPLE CARRYING OBJECTS: A Periodicity Dependency Pattern Approach}, BOOKTITLE = {International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)}, YEAR = {2010}, MONTH = may, EDITOR = {INSTICC Press}, PAGES = {524--529}, ADDRESS = {Angers, France}, NOTE = {ISBN:978-989-674-029-0}, PDF = {http://elvera.nue.tu-berlin.de/files/1236Senst2010.pdf}, URL = {http://elvera.nue.tu-berlin.de/files/1236Senst2010.pdf}, ABSTRACT = {Detecting people carrying objects is a commonly formulated problem which results can be used as a first step in order to monitor interactions between people and objects in computer vision applications. In this paper we propose a novel method for this task. By using gray-value information instead of the contours obtained by a segmentation process we build up a system that is robust against segmentation errors. Experimental results show the validity of the method.} }