Avoiding the "Streetlight Effect": Tracking by Exploring Likelihood Modes

  • Authors:
  • David Demirdjian;Leonid Taycher;Gregory Shakhnarovich;Kristen Grauman;Trevor Darrell

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '05 Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV'05) Volume 1 - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Classic methods for Bayesian inference effectively constrain search to lie within regions of significant probability of the temporal prior. This is efficient with an accurate dynamics model, but otherwise is prone to ignore significant peaks in the true posterior. A more accurate posterior estimate can be obtained by explicitly finding modes of the likelihood function and combining them with a weak temporal prior. In our approach modes are found using effi- cient example-based matching followed by local refinement to find peaks and estimate peak bandwidth. By reweighting these peaks according to the temporal prior we obtain an estimate of the full posterior model. We show comparative results on real and synthetic images in a high degree of freedom articulated tracking task.