Tracking Objects Using Density Matching and Shape Priors

  • Authors:
  • Tao Zhang;Daniel Freedman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

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

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Abstract

We present a novel method for tracking objects by combiningdensity matching with shape priors. Density matchingis a tracking method which operates by maximizing theBhattacharyya similarity measure between the photometricdistribution from an estimated image region and a modelphotometric distribution. Such trackers can be expressed asPDE-based curve evolutions, which can be implemented usinglevel sets. Shape priors can be combined with this level-setimplementation of density matching by representing theshape priors as a series of level sets; a variational approachallows for a natural, parametrization-independentshape term to be derived. Experimental results on real imagesequences are shown.