3. A Software Approach to Performance Evaluation

This chapter provides four sections. The first section introduces the ViCamPEv software infrastructure (i.e., OpenCV, etc.), the CAVIAR video dataset, and its CVML (i.e., XML GT file format), and some other studies in the literature (e.g., MERL-PEP platform). In the second section, the architectural overview of the ViCamPEv software is presented and how the GT data is used to measure and evaluate the performance of given object D&T methods. Also, UML-based component diagram of software and the development platform of software are presented. In the third section, the testing conditions and testbed (i.e., software and hardware) are explained, and detailed via the screenshots of ViCamPEv’s GUI windows. In the fourth section, the system workflow is given via two parts of ViCamPEv: the Camera part and the Video part. The system is treated as automatic or semi-automatic test environment, which combines the input data with parameters of given methods.