Title
Robust model adaptation for tracking with online weighted color and shape feature
Abstract
Histogram-based particle filters have emerged as an appealing method for the target tracking. As colour and shape features are widely used to represent the target, we propose in this paper a novel method to combine these two features by assigning an adaptive weighting factor to each feature, in a particle filtering framework. In other words, the feature with higher likelihood and the property of high saliency will contribute more than other features to estimate the posterior density function of the target state in tracking. To cope with the target appearance changes, our tracker extracts the contextual information from the background to alleviate model drifting problem. The contextual information is therefore used for reference model update. We tested our proposed algorithm on some publicly available datasets, and the results from these video sequences have shown that the proposed tracker can tackle several open problems in tracking including heavy illumination changes, dramatic self-deformation and background clutter.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IPTA.2014.7001956
IPTA
Keywords
Field
DocType
particle filtering (numerical methods),image representation,particle filtering framework,video sequences,appealing method,learning (artificial intelligence),target tracking,robust model adaptation,online weighted shape feature,tracking,feature extraction,online weighted color feature,object tracking,posterior density function estimation,target representation,adaptive weighting factor,surveillance systems,background learning,image colour analysis,online weighted features,histogram-based particle filters,video surveillance,color,histograms,shape,robustness
Computer vision,Histogram,Contextual information,Reference model,Pattern recognition,Clutter,Salience (neuroscience),Computer science,Particle filter,Robustness (computer science),Artificial intelligence,Probability density function
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2154-512X
1
0.36
References 
Authors
14
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingjing Xiao151.76
Mourad Oussalah234476.14