Influence of the observation likelihood function on particle filtering performance in tracking applications

Authors:
Jeroen Lichtenauer;Marcel Reinders;Emile Hendriks
Affiliations:
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Venue:
FGR' 04 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE international conference on Automatic face and gesture recognition
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Since the introduction of particle filtering for object tracking, a lot of improvements have been suggested. However, the definition of the observation likelihood function, needed for determining the particle weights, has received little attention. Because particle weights determine how the particles are re-sampled, the likelihood function has a strong influence on the tracking performance. We show experimental results for three different tracking tasks for different parameter values of the assumed observation model. The results show a large influence of the model parameters on the tracking performance. Optimizing the likelihood function can give significant tracking improvement. Different optimal parameter settings are observed for the three different tracking tasks. Consequently, when performing multiple tasks a tradeoff must be made for the parameter setting. In practical situations where robust tracking must be achieved with a limited amount of particles, the true observation probability is not always the optimal likelihood function.