A Background Layer Model for Object Tracking Through Occlusion

  • Authors:
  • Yue Zhou;Hai Tao

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

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

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Abstract

Motion layer estimation has recently emerged as apromising object tracking method. In this paper, we extendprevious research on layer-based tracker by introducingthe concept of background occluding layers and explicitlyinferring depth ordering of foreground layers. Thebackground occluding layers lie in front of, behind, and inbetween foreground layers. Each pixel in the backgroundregions belongs to one of these layers and occludes all theforeground layers behind it. Together with the foregroundordering, the complete information necessary for reliablytracking objects through occlusion is included in ourrepresentation. An MAP estimation framework isdeveloped to simultaneously update the motion layerparameters, the ordering parameters, and the backgroundoccluding layers. Experimental results show that undervarious conditions with occlusion, including situationswith moving objects undergoing complex motions orhaving complex interactions, our tracking algorithm isable to handle many difficult tracking tasks reliably.