Title
Object tracking using the Gabor wavelet transform and the golden section algorithm
Abstract
This paper presents a new method for tracking an object in a video sequence which uses a 2D Gabor wavelet transform (GWT), a 2D mesh, and a 2D golden section algorithm. An object is modeled by local features from a number of the selected feature points, and the global placement of these feature points. The feature points are stochastically selected based on the energy of their GWT coefficients. Points with higher energy have a higher probability of being selected. The amplitudes of the GWT coefficients of a feature point are then used as the local feature. The global placement of the feature points is determined by a 2D mesh whose feature is the area of the triangles formed by the feature points. The overall similarity between two objects is a weighted sum of the local and global similarities. In order to find the corresponding object in the video sequence, the 2D golden section algorithm is employed, and this can be shown to be the fastest algorithm to find the maximum of a unimodal function. Our results show that the method is robust to object deformation and supports object tracking in noisy video sequences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/TMM.2002.806534
Multimedia, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
DocType
Volume
feature point,gabor wavelet transform,video signal processing,image representation,content-based video,gwt coefficients,2d golden section algorithm,2d mesh,corresponding object,wavelet transforms,target tracking,global placement,selected feature point,mesh generation,golden section,unimodal function,object-based video processing,object tracking method,two-dimensional gabor wavelet transform,golden section algorithm,global feature,feature extraction,gwt coefficient amplitude vector,triangle area vector,mesh,affine transform,object tracking,image sequences,object deformation,noisy video sequences,selected feature points,gwt coefficient,global similarity,gabor wavelets,index terms—content-based video,local feature,object tracking.,feature points,content-based retrieval,object-based video,video sequence,video compression,tracking,robustness,helium,object recognition,motion estimation,indexing
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1520-9210
15
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.84
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
chao he1402.66
Jianyu Dong2463.89
Zheng, Y.F.3150.84
Ahalt, S.C.4284.65