Abstract
In this paper, we describe a method for the temporal trackingof stochastic deformable models in long image sequences.The object representation relies on a hierarchical statisticaldescription of the deformations applied to a template. Abayesian estimate of the deformations is obtained by maximizinga highly non-linear joint probability distribution.Time consuming global (stochastic) optimization techniquesare necessary to obtain optimal solutions unless a good initialguess is available. A ...

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