Object tracking and identification in video streams with snakes and points

  • Authors:
  • Bruno Lameyre;Valerie Gouet

  • Affiliations:
  • CEDRIC/CNAM, Paris;CEDRIC/CNAM, Paris

  • Venue:
  • PCM'04 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper presents a generic approach for object tracking and identification in video sequences, called SAP. The object is described with two image primitives: first, its content is described with Points of interest that are automatically extracted and characterized according to an appearance-based model. Second, the object's envelope is described with a Snake. The originality of SAP consists in a complementary use of these primitives: the snake allows to reduce the points extraction to a limited area, and the point description is efficiently exploited during the snake tracking. Such a characterization is robust to wide occlusions and can be use for object identification and localization purposes. SAP has been implemented with the aim of achieving near real-time performance.