Title
Comparison of infrared and visible imagery for object tracking: Toward trackers with superior IR performance
Abstract
The subject of this paper is the visual object tracking in infrared (IR) videos. Our contribution is twofold. First, the performance behaviour of the state-of-the-art trackers is investigated via a comparative study using IR-visible band video conjugates, i.e., video pairs captured observing the same scene simultaneously, to identify the IR specific challenges. Second, we propose a novel ensemble based tracking method that is tuned to IR data. The proposed algorithm sequentially constructs and maintains a dynamical ensemble of simple correlators and produces tracking decisions by switching among the ensemble correlators depending on the target appearance in a computationally highly efficient manner. We empirically show that our algorithm significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art trackers in our extensive set of experiments with IR imagery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/CVPRW.2015.7301290
2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)
Keywords
Field
DocType
visible imagery,infrared imagery,tracker superior IR performance,visual object tracking,infrared video,IR-visible band video conjugate
Correlation function (quantum field theory),Computer vision,BitTorrent tracker,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Video tracking,Artificial intelligence,Infrared
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2015
1
2160-7508
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.49
20
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erhan Gundogdu1355.37
Huseyin Ozkan24010.44
Demir, H.Seckin3101.85
Hamza Ergezer4141.75
Erdem Akagunduz5355.09
S. Kubilay Pakin6212.84