Robust Appearance-based Tracking using a sparse Bayesian classifier

  • Authors:
  • Shu-Fai Wong;Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong;Roberto Cipolla

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge;Hong Kong University;University of Cambridge

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '06 Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Volume 03
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

An appearance-based approach to track an object that may undergo appearance change is proposed. Unlike recent methods that store a detailed representation of object's appearance, this method allows an appearance feature with a reduced dimension to be used. Through the use of a sparse Bayesian classifier, high classification and detection accuracy can be maintained even if a reduced feature vector is used. In addition, the classifier allows online-training which enables online-updating of the original classification model and provides better adaptability. Experiments show that the method can be used to track targets undergo appearance change due to the change in view-point, facial expression and lighting direction.