Maintaining Multi-Modality through Mixture Tracking

  • Authors:
  • Jaco Vermaak;Arnaud Doucet;Patrick Pérez

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '03 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In recent years particle filters have become a tremendouslypopular tool to perform tracking for non-linearand/or non-Gaussian models. This is due to their simplicity,generality and success over a wide range of challengingapplications. Particle filters, and Monte Carlo methodsin general, are however poor at consistently maintainingthe multi-modality of the target distributions that may arisedue to ambiguity or the presence of multiple objects. Toaddress this shortcoming this paper proposes to model thetarget distribution as a non-parametric mixture model, andpresents the general tracking recursion in this case. It isshown how a Monte Carlo implementation of the generalrecursion leads to a mixture of particle filters that interactonly in the computation of the mixture weights, thus leadingto an efficient numerical algorithm, where all the resultspertaining to standard particle filters apply. The ability ofthe new method to maintain posterior multi-modality is illustratedon a synthetic example and a real world trackingproblem involving the tracking of football players in a videosequence.