Title
Illumination-Invariant Tracking via Graph Cuts
Abstract
Illumination changes are a ubiquitous problem in computer vision. They present a challenge in many applications, including tracking: for example, an object may move in and out of a shadow. We present a new tracking algorithm which is insensitive to illumination changes, while at the same time using all of the available photometric information. The algorithm is based on computing an illumination-invariant optical flow field; the computation is made robust by using a graph cuts formulation. Experimentally, the new technique is shown to quite reliable in both synthetic and real sequences, dealing with a variety of illumination changes that cause problems for density based trackers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1109/CVPR.2005.182
CVPR (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
ubiquitous problem,illumination invariance,computer vision,graph cuts.,optical flow,graph cuts,graph cuts formulation,illumination-invariant optical flow field,illumination-invariant tracking,tracking,illumination change,new tracking algorithm,available photometric information,new technique,cause problem,real sequence,application software,photometry,graph theory,graph cut,robustness,lighting,ubiquitous computing,optical computing
Cut,Graph theory,Computer vision,Shadow,Graph cuts in computer vision,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Invariant (mathematics),Ubiquitous computing,Optical flow,Computation
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-6919
0-7695-2372-2
33
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.92
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Freedman151727.79
Matthew Turek2886.29