Coarse-to-Fine Tracking of Articulated Objects Using a Hierarchical Spring System

  • Authors:
  • Nicole Artner;Adrian Ion;Walter Kropatsch

  • Affiliations:
  • Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC, Smart Systems Division, Vienna, Austria;PRIP, Vienna University of Technology, Austria;PRIP, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

  • Venue:
  • CAIP '09 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Tracking of articulated objects is a challenging task in Computer Vision. A highly target specific model can improve the robustness of the tracking by eliminating or reducing the ambiguities in the association task. This paper presents a flexible framework, which allows to build target specific, part-based models for arbitrary articulated objects. The rigid parts are described by hierarchical spring systems in form of attributed graph pyramids and connected via articulation points, which transfer position information between the adjacent parts.