Title
Underwater Fish Tracking for Moving Cameras based on Deformable Multiple Kernels.
Abstract
Fishery surveys that call for the use of single or multiple underwater cameras have been an emerging technology as a nonextractive mean to estimate the abundance of fish stocks. Tracking live fish in an open aquatic environment posts challenges that are different from general pedestrian or vehicle tracking in surveillance applications. In many rough habitats, fish are monitored by cameras installed on moving platforms, where tracking is even more challenging due to inapplicability of background models. In this paper, a novel tracking algorithm based on the deformable multiple kernels is proposed to address these challenges. Inspired by the deformable part model technique, a set of kernels is defined to represent the holistic object and several parts that are arranged in a deformable configuration. Color histogram, texture histogram, and the histogram of oriented gradients (HOGs) are extracted and serve as object features. Kernel motion is efficiently estimated by the mean-shift algorithm on color and texture features to realize tracking. Furthermore, the HOG-feature deformation costs are adopted as soft constraints on kernel positions to maintain the part configuration. Experimental results on practical video set from underwater moving cameras show the reliable performance of the proposed method with much less computational cost comparing with state-of-the-art techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/TSMC.2016.2523943
IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Kernel,Cameras,Target tracking,Object tracking,Histograms,Deformable models
Journal
abs/1603.01695
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
2168-2216
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
32
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meng-Che Chuang1786.24
Jenq-Neng Hwang21675206.57
Jian-Hui Ye3311.62
Shih-Chia Huang465742.31
Kresimir Williams5594.38