Authors:
C. Liu
1
;
N. H. C. Yung
1
and
R. G. Fang
2
Affiliations:
1
Laboratory for Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, China
;
2
Information Science & Engineering College, Zhejinang University, China
Keyword(s):
Tracking, Feature Scale Selection, Density Approximation, Bayesian Adaptation, MAP, EM.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Image and Video Analysis
;
Model-Based Object Tracking in Image Sequences
;
Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision
;
Segment Cluster Tracking
;
Statistical Approach
Abstract:
Feature density approximation (FDA) based visual object appearance representation is emerging as an effective method for object tracking, but its challenges come from object’s complex motion (e.g. scaling, rotation) and the consequent object’s appearance variation. The traditional adaptive FDA methods extract features in fixed scales ignoring the object’s scale variation, and update FDA by sequential Maximum Likelihood estimation, which lacks robustness for sparse data. In this paper, to solve the above challenges, a robust multi-scale adaptive FDA object representation method is proposed for tracking, and its robust FDA updating method is provided. This FDA achieve robustness by extracting features in the selected scale and estimating feature density using a new likelihood function defined both by feature set and the feature’s effectiveness probability. In FDA updating, robustness is achieved updating FDA in a Bayesian way by MAP-EM algorithm using density prior knowledge extracted
from historical density. Object complex motion (e.g. scaling and rotation) is solved by correlating object appearance with its spatial alignment. Experimental results show that this method is efficient for complex motion, and robust in adapting the object appearance variation caused by changing scale, illumination, pose and viewing angel.
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