Tracking as Segmentation of Spatial-Temporal Volumes by Anisotropic Weighted TV

  • Authors:
  • Markus Unger;Thomas Mauthner;Thomas Pock;Horst Bischof

  • Affiliations:
  • Graz University of Technology, Austria;Graz University of Technology, Austria;Graz University of Technology, Austria;Graz University of Technology, Austria

  • Venue:
  • EMMCVPR '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Tracking is usually interpreted as finding an object in single consecutive frames. Regularization is done by enforcing temporal smoothness of appearance, shape and motion. We propose a tracker, by interpreting the task of tracking as segmentation of a volume in 3D. Inherently temporal and spatial regularization is unified in a single regularization term. Segmentation is done by a variational approach using anisotropic weighted Total Variation (TV) regularization. The proposed convex energy is solved globally optimal by a fast primal-dual algorithm. Any image feature can be used in the segmentation cue of the proposed Mumford-Shah like data term. As a proof of concept we show experiments using a simple color-based appearance model. As demonstrated in the experiments, our tracking approach is able to handle large variations in shape and size, as well as partial and complete occlusions.