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In this paper, we present an effective and robust visual vehicle tracking algorithm using particle filter and multiple cues. A stable histogram-based framework is extended to evaluate color, edge, texture and motion cues in structured environments. This framework is suitable for practical conditions since in many applications the object motions are limited by structure of the surveillance scene. We...
We present a robust object tracking algorithm which integrates Modified Continuous Adaptive Mean shift and Particle Filtering providing a framework for state estimation in nonlinear and non-Gaussian dynamic system. In order to overcome the various kinds of clutter and distracters problem, we employ a parameter associated with the similarity measurement to update window width adaptively via calculating...
Although monocular 2D tracking has been largely studied in the literature, it suffers from some inherent problems, mainly when handling persistent occlusions, that limit its performance in practical situations. Tracking methods combining observations from multiple cameras seem to solve these problems. However, most multi-camera systems require detailed information from each view, making it impossible...
Robust tracking is an important and challenging problem in computer vision. Most existing algorithms do not work well if there are confusing objects in the surrounding environment or the target appearance has a significant change. This paper describes a novel particle filter for object tracking. First, we treat the blob image of the object as a matrix and adopt singular values to construct the feature...
This paper addresses the problem of object tracking by learning a discriminative classifier to separate the object from its background. The online-learned classifier is used to adaptively model object's appearance and its background. To solve the typical problem of erroneous training examples generated during tracking, an online multiple instance learning (MIL) algorithm is used by allowing false...
Robustly counting the number of people for surveillance systems has widespread applications. In this paper, we propose a robust and rapid head-shoulder detector for people counting. By combining the multilevel HOG (Histograms of Oriented Gradients) with the multilevel LBP (Local Binary Pattern) as the feature set, we can detect the head-shoulders of people robustly, even though there are partial occlusions...
In this paper we present a new method for fast histogram computing and its extension to bin to bin histogram distance computing. The idea consists in using the information of spatial differences between images, or between regions of images (a current and a reference one), and encoding it into a specific data structure: a tree. The Bhattacharyya distance between two histograms is then computed using...
Lane detection and tracking is still a challenging task. Here, we combine the recently introduced Statistical Hough transform (SHT) with a Particle Filter (PF) and show its application for robust lane tracking. SHT improves the standard Hough transform (HT) which was shown to work well for lane detection. We use the local descriptors of the SHT as measurement for the PF, and show how a new three kernel...
In this paper, a multiple features face tracking algorithm based on particle filter is proposed. Particle filter can effectively combine multiple face features information which supply robustness in different environments. Meanwhile, our approach makes use of the invariance to rotation and translation of color histogram central moment and statistical characteristic of multiple resolution Sobel Local...
We proposed a method for automatic detection and tracking of moving object employing a particle filter in conjunction with a color feature method. The particle filtering is used because it is robust for non-linear and non-Gaussian dynamic state estimation problems and performs well when clutter and occlusions are present on the image. A histogram-based framework is used to describe the color feature...
This paper presented a color image tracking method. In order to implement an effective and robust tracking task, a novel approach of weighted color distribution appearance model based on color histogram is discussed, which takes into account the target's shape and position of pixels as necessary factors in target model. Experiment result shows, in contrast with Mean Shift and conventional particle...
Visual object tracking is an important topic in multimedia technologies. This paper presents robust implementation of an object tracker using a vision system that takes into consideration partial occlusions, rotation and scale for a variety of different objects. A scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) based color particle filter algorithm is proposed for object tracking in real scenarios. The Scale...
We propose a novel scheme that jointly employs anisotropic mean shift and particle filters for tracking moving objects from video. The proposed anisotropic mean shift, that is applied to partitioned areas in a candidate object bounding box whose parameters (center, width, height and orientation) are adjusted during the mean shift iterations, seeks multiple local modes in spatial-kernel weighted color...
This paper presents a face-tracking algorithm based on particle filter framework. Firstly, a target state is obtained using conventional color histograms. Secondly, a tracking method is proposed on the basis of seven moment invariants, and another state vector is also computed using this approach. Furthermore, the weights of the two state vectors are computed according to Euclidean distance between...
In this paper, a semi-supervised particle filter approach is proposed for visual tracking. The combination of semi-supervised learning and particle filter is very natural since the unlabelled samples are generated by particle propagation. In addition, the proposed semi-supervised particle filter can online select different features for robust tracking. To the best knowledge of the authors, this is...
Recently, the covariance region descriptor has been proved robust and versatile for a modest computational cost. It enables efficient fusion of different types of features. Based on the covariance descriptor and the metric on Riemannian manifolds, we develop a robust Bayesian tracking framework via fragments-based representation in this paper. In this framework, the template object is represented...
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised ensemble tracking approach under the framework of particle filter. The particle filter is used not only for object searching, but also for unlabelled sample generation. By adopting the semi-supervised learning technology, these unlabelled samples which are generated online are utilized to progressively modify the classifier and make the ensemble tracker...
This paper presents a novel and effective method for robust human tracking applied to far-infrared image sequences. It makes use of the characteristics of human body regions in far-infrared images and is based on a particle filter framework. The method constructs the regions of interestpsilas (ROI) histogram representation in an intensity-distance projection space, so as to hurdle the disadvantage...
The covariance region descriptor recently proposed in [1] has been proved robust and versatile for a modest computational cost. The covariance matrix enables efficient fusion of different types of features, where the spatial and statistical properties as well as their correlation are characterized. The similarity of two covariance descriptor is measured on Riemannian manifolds. Relying on the same...
This paper presents a new object tracking algorithm that embeds swarming particles into generic particle filter framework to achieve more robustness and flexibility. Firstly a group of particles associated with potential solutions are initialized in a high-dimensional space. Then particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to drive particles flying. The object is tracked when the particles reach convergence...
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