Robust template tracking with drift correction

  • Authors:
  • David Schreiber

  • Affiliations:
  • Advanced Computer Vision GmbH - ACV, Donau-City-Strasse 1, A-1220 Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose an efficient robust version of the Lucas-Kanade template matching algorithm. The robust weights used by the algorithm are based on evidence which is accumulated over many frames. We also present a robust extension of the algorithm proposed by Matthews et al. [Matthews, I., Ishikawa, T., Baker, S., 2004. The template update problem. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell. 26 (6), 810-815] which corrects the template drift. We demonstrate that in terms of tracking accuracy, the robust version of the drift-correcting algorithm outperforms the original algorithm, while remaining still extremely fast.