Thomas B. Moeslund & Adrian Hilton 
Visual Analysis of Humans [PDF ebook] 
Looking at People

Part I: Detection and Tracking

Is There Anybody Out There?
Thomas B. Moeslund

Beyond the Static Camera: Issues and Trends in Active Vision
Murad Al Haj, Carles Fernández, Zhanwu Xiong, Ivan Huerta, Jordi Gonzàlez and Xavier Roca

Figure-Ground Segmentation – Pixel-Based
Ahmed Elgammal

Figure-Ground Segmentation – Object Based
Bastian Leibe

Face Detection
Raghuraman Gopalan, William Robson Schwartz, Rama Chellappa, and Ankur Srivastava

Wide Area Tracking in Single and Multiple Views
B. Song, R. J. Sethi and A. K. Roy-Chowdhury

Benchmark Datasets for Detection and Tracking
Anna-Louise Ellis and James Ferryman

Part II: Pose Estimation

Articulated Pose Estimation and Tracking: Introduction
Leonid Sigal

Model-based Pose Estimation
Gerard Pons-Moll and Bodo Rosenhahn

Motion Models for People Tracking
David J. Fleet

Part-based Models for Finding People and Estimating Their Pose
Deva Ramanan

Feature-based Pose Estimation
Cristian Sminchisescu, Liefeng Bo, Catalin Ionescu and Atul Kanaujia

Benchmark Datasets for Pose Estimation and Tracking
Mykhaylo Andriluka, Leonid Sigal and Michael J. Black

Part III: Recognition

On Human Action
Aaron Bobick and Volker Krüger

Motion Pattern Analysis for Modeling and Recognition of Complex Human Activities
Nandita M. Nayak, Ricky J.Sethi, Bi Song, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Action Recognition Using Topic Models
Xiaogang Wang

Learning Action Primitives
Dana Kulić, Danica Kragic and Volker Krüger

Contextual Action Recognition
Hedvig Kjellström

Facial Expression Analysis
Fernando De la Torre and Jeffrey F. Cohn

Benchmarking Datasets for Human Activity Recognition
Haowei Liu, Rogerio Feris and Ming-Ting Sun

Part IV: Applications

Applications for Visual Analysis of People
Adrian Hilton

Image and Video-based Biometrics
Vishal M. Patel, Jaishanker K. Pillai and Rama Chellappa

Security and Surveillance
Shaogang Gong, Chen Change Loy and Tao Xiang

Predicting Pedestrian Trajectories
Stefano Pellegrini, Andreas Ess and Luc Van Gool

Human Computer Interaction
Dennis Lin and Vuong Le and Thomas Huang

Social Signal Processing: The Research Agenda
Maja Pantic, Roderick Cowie, Francesca DErrico, Dirk Heylen, Marc Mehu, Catherine Pelachaud, Isabella Poggi, Marc Schroeder and Alessandro Vinciarelli

Sign Language Recognition
Helen Cooper, Brian Holt and Richard Bowden

Sports TV Applications of Computer Vision
Graham Thomas

Multi-view 4D Reconstruction of Human Action for Entertainment
Oliver Grau

Vision for Driver Assistance: Looking at People in a Vehicle
Cuong Tran and Mohan Manubhai Trivedi