Keeping your eye on the ball: tracking occluding contours of unfamiliar objects without distraction

19 November 2002

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 1, 354-359
https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.1995.525820

Abstract

Visual tracking is prone to distractions, where features similar to the target features guide the track away from its intended object. Global shape models and dynamic models are necessary for completely distraction-free contour tracking, but there are cases when component feature trackers alone can be expected to avoid distraction. We define the tracking problem in general and devise a method for local, window-based, feature trackers to track accurately in spite of background distractions. The algorithm is applied to a generic line tracker and a snake-like contour tracker which are then analyzed with respect to previous contour-trackers. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of our approach and suggest that existing model-based trackers can be improved by incorporating similar techniques at the local level Author(s) Toyama, K. Dept. of Comput. Sci., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA Hager, G.D.

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