Hybrid Monte Carlo Filtering: Edge-Based People Tracking

  • Authors:
  • Eunice Poon;David J. Fleet

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MOTION '02 Proceedings of the Workshop on Motion and Video Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Statistical inefficiency often limits the effectiveness ofparticle filters for high-dimensional Bayesian trackingproblems. To improve sampling efficiency on continuousdomains, we propose the use of a particle filter with hybridMonte Carlo (HMC), an MCMC method that followsposterior gradients toward high probability states, whileensuring a properly weighted approximation to the poste-rior.We use HMC filtering to infer the 3D shape and motionof people from natural, monocular image sequences. Theapproach currently uses an empirical, edge-based likelihoodfunction, and a second-order dynamical model withsoft bio-mechanical joint constraints.