ROBUST MOBILE OBJECT TRACKING BASED ON MULTIPLE FEATURE SIMILARITY AND TRAJECTORY FILTERING

Duc Phu Chau, François Bremond, Monique Thonnat, Etienne Corvee

2011

Abstract

This paper presents a new algorithm to track mobile objects in different scene conditions. The main idea of the proposed tracker includes estimation, multi-features similarity measures and trajectory filtering. A feature set (distance, area, shape ratio, color histogram) is defined for each tracked object to search for the best matching object. Its best matching object and its state estimated by the Kalman filter are combined to update position and size of the tracked object. However, the mobile object trajectories are usually fragmented because of occlusions and misdetections. Therefore, we also propose a trajectory filtering, named global tracker, aims at removing the noisy trajectories and fusing the fragmented trajectories belonging to a same mobile object. The method has been tested with five videos of different scene conditions. Three of them are provided by the ETISEO benchmarking project (http://www-sop.inria.fr/orion/ETISEO) in which the proposed tracker performance has been compared with other seven tracking algorithms. The advantages of our approach over the existing state of the art ones are: (i) no prior knowledge information is required (e.g. no calibration and no contextual models are needed), (ii) the tracker is more reliable by combining multiple feature similarities, (iii) the tracker can perform in different scene conditions: single/several mobile objects, weak/strong illumination, indoor/outdoor scenes, (iv) a trajectory filtering is defined and applied to improve the tracker performance, (v) the tracker performance outperforms many algorithms of the state of the art. filtering is defined and applied to improve the tracker performance, (v) the tracker performance outperforms many algorithms of the state of the art.

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in Harvard Style

Phu Chau D., Bremond F., Thonnat M. and Corvee E. (2011). ROBUST MOBILE OBJECT TRACKING BASED ON MULTIPLE FEATURE SIMILARITY AND TRAJECTORY FILTERING . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-47-8, pages 569-574. DOI: 10.5220/0003317205690574


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp11,
author={Duc Phu Chau and François Bremond and Monique Thonnat and Etienne Corvee},
title={ROBUST MOBILE OBJECT TRACKING BASED ON MULTIPLE FEATURE SIMILARITY AND TRAJECTORY FILTERING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={569-574},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003317205690574},
isbn={978-989-8425-47-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)
TI - ROBUST MOBILE OBJECT TRACKING BASED ON MULTIPLE FEATURE SIMILARITY AND TRAJECTORY FILTERING
SN - 978-989-8425-47-8
AU - Phu Chau D.
AU - Bremond F.
AU - Thonnat M.
AU - Corvee E.
PY - 2011
SP - 569
EP - 574
DO - 10.5220/0003317205690574