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The thesis presents a novel model named Continuous Entity Association that combines the two acts of tracking within and across cameras and reformulates it as a single problem of continuous re-identification. The approach unifies the two separate tasks and presents a much clearer and simpler online solution which has the advantage of not requiring temporally contiguous sequences of video frames for tracking. This is accomplished by extracting appearance and facial features, and modeling location constraints across cameras. The approach is validated by using a simple and efficient inference algorithm. Next, a discriminative spatio-temporal learning approach for online tracking using LSTM networks is proposed. The idea is to exploit LSTM's temporal step-by-step functionality to identify detections as belonging to the same individual and recovering from past errors in associating different individuals to a particular trajectory. State-of-the-art tracking results are obtained on two large publicly available datasets, CamNeT and DukeMTMC. Composite Appearance Network (CAN) - a simple and novel metadata-based architecture with jointly attentive spatio-temporal pooling, is proposed for studying the implications of CAN for inter-camera tracking. It measures the relative quality of every feature map in a trajectory and weakens the noisy features to narrow down variances for an identity, thus making the trajectory representation more discriminative. Finally, a continuous error metric called ``Inference Error'' that provides a better estimate of tracking error, by treating within-camera and inter-camera errors uniformly, is presented. The proposed tracking algorithm is completely automatic, giving reliably correct identities even for multi-camera scenarios with complex indoor and outdoor movements, and varying number of persons. 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