A Bayesian approach to joint tracking and identification of geometric shapes in video sequences

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Minvielle;Arnaud Doucet;Alan Marrs;Simon Maskell

  • Affiliations:
  • CEA, DAM, CESTA, F-33114 Le Barp, France;The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan;QinetiQ Ltd., St. Andrews Road, Malvern, United Kingdom;QinetiQ Ltd., St. Andrews Road, Malvern, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Image and Vision Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

A Bayesian approach is proposed for joint tracking and identification. These two problems are often addressed independently in the literature, leading to suboptimal performance. In a Bayesian approach, a prior distribution is set on both the hypothesis space and the associated parameter space. Although this is straightforward from a conceptual viewpoint, it is typically impossible to perform inference in closed-form. We discuss an advanced particle filtering approach to solve this computational problem and apply this algorithm to joint tracking and identification of geometric forms in video sequences.